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  The Doctor of Auschwitz - The...

  Kit Sergeant

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  In a place where medicine was used to harm, she vowed to heal 
  Occupied France, 1942: Psychiatrist Dr. Adélaïde Hautval is arrested for defending a Jewish family. When she’s deported to Auschwitz and assigned to the women’s infirmary, she’s ordered to assist with sterilization experiments under SS doctors—including the infamous Josef Mengele. As the line between healing and harm blurs, Adélaïde makes a choice that could cost her everything. 
  London, 1964: Two decades later, one of the Nazi doctors is on trial—and Adélaïde is the key to exposing the truth. 
  Based on a remarkable true story, The Doctor of Auschwitz is a haunting and unforgettable novel about choosing humanity over survival and finding the courage to speak out. 
  Perfect for fans of The Midwife of Auschwitz and The Nightingale!

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  Circus Maximus - An...

  A.D. O'Neill

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  The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus.'A.D. O'Neill peels back the veil of time and shines a light on the intrigue and excitement of chariot racing in ancient Rome. With exquisite attention to detail and an authentic and engaging voice, Circus Maximus is endlessly and effortlessly entertaining.' MATTHEW HARFFY, author of The Bernicia Chronicles seriesTHE CHAOTIC A.D. 69When the tyrannical Aulus Vitellius seizes the reins of power in Rome, the empire is already in the grip of a fierce civil war. But the new emperor's first priority is both personal and deeply symbolic: he plans to crush the Green chariot racing faction - the mortal enemies of his beloved Blues - at the Plebeian Games in the Circus Maximus.To save the Greens from certain extinction, two former charioteers - the stoical and determined Corax and the flamboyant and cocksure Alector (once the firmest of friends, now the bitterest of rivals) - have just twenty-six days to transport four champion chariot horses across the breadth of Europe to Rome. Braving blizzards, bandits, floods and wild storms at sea, theirs is an unforgettable odyssey and race-against-time adventure.A.D. O'Neill steers a thundering epic around historical events and real-life characters to a breathtaking climax in the greatest sporting arena of all time - the Circus Maximus.

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  Revenge at Burial Rock

  Peter Brandvold

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  Joe believes the old regulator, "Long-Shot" Hunter Drago, who did twelve years' hard time because of Mannion, has moved to the town of Del Norte, in the Colorado Territory to kill him. But nearly everyone else in town believes that he merely moved there to take over the Three-Legged Dog Saloon and to begin a new, peaceful life. 
   
   
   
  Mannion, who doesn't believe in coincidences but does know the nature of "Long Shot's" black heart, doesn't buy a word of it. 
   
   
   
  The rest of the town, including his lover, Jane Ford, thinks Mannion's just being his old, stubborn, bloody self—especially when he catches Drago palling around with his daughter, Evangeline, and beats the old killer half to death on Del Norte's main street for all to see. 
   
   
   
  Bloody Joe has finally gone too far. The town's powers-that-be believe it's time for Joe to go. 
   
   
   
  As the game of cat and mouse continues and Mannion finds himself dodging a veritable lead storm nearly everywhere he goes, he finally finds himself in a bloody showdown on the stone mountain called Burial Rock, where he finds that not only his own life hangs in the balance but Jane's life, as well. 
   
   
   
  He's going to have to move fast and shoot straight to escape a blood bath . . .

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  Sunday’s Child: The spellbinding...

  Dilly Court

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  Don’t miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! 
  Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship – until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now eighteen years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But she can’t help wondering who her parents really were… 
  When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton – kind and warm-hearted, he might just be the man of Nancy’s dreams. But she knows his wealthy parents would never let him marry a penniless foundling. 
  And she has also caught the eye of another man – the charming and dangerous Gervase North, who has reasons of his own for discovering Nancy’s parentage. 
  Will Nancy ever find where she truly belongs? 
  Immerse yourself in this historical fiction, a top bestseller, that takes you on a Victorian romance journey filled with friendship and sagas. Experience the coming of age of Nancy, a foundling in the midst of London society, as she navigates her way through love, identity, and belonging. 
  For fans of Annemarie Brear (Where the Poppies Dance), Anna Jacobs (Lavender Lane), Rosie Clarke (Loyalty and Lies on Dressmakers' Alley), Lizzie Lane (Bad Company on Coronation Close), and Lesley Pearse (The Girl with the Suitcase). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  What if the man buried alive returned not as himself, but as judgment? 
   
  In *The Count of Monte Cristo*, Alexandre Dumas creates one of the greatest revenge epics in world literature: a vast story of betrayal, imprisonment, transformation, wealth, justice, and the terrible temptation of playing providence. Serialized from 1844 to 1846, this French classic follows Edmond Dantès, a young sailor whose happiness is destroyed by jealousy, ambition, and political suspicion. 
   
  Falsely accused and imprisoned in the Château d’If, Dantès disappears from the world. In darkness, he encounters knowledge, patience, and the secret that will remake his destiny. When he returns as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, he enters society with immense power, hidden purpose, and a plan that reaches every person who wronged him. 
   
  Dumas’s genius lies in making revenge both thrilling and morally dangerous. The novel moves from Marseille to Paris, from prison walls to aristocratic salons, from treasure and disguises to love, guilt, memory, and revelation. Every act of justice risks becoming another form of ruin. 
   
  The enduring power of *The Count of Monte Cristo* comes from its perfect fusion of adventure and philosophy: the dream of escape, the hunger for justice, the seduction of vengeance, and the question of whether a wounded soul can still return to mercy. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, bringing Dumas’s suspense, grandeur, intrigue, and emotional force to life with vivid clarity. 
   
  Enter the prison, follow the treasure, and discover the classic that turns revenge into destiny.

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  Rebellion

  Simon Heath

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  Claudius's invasion of Britannia was achieved almost unopposed. The few pockets of credible resistance were ruthlessly crushed by the machine that was the Roman army. What followed was a tense but relatively peaceful co-existence, even some merging of cultures. That peaceful life was shattered by greed and oppression, when the new Emperor, Nero, forces a change in hierarchy in the province. Paulinus, a brutal Governor, and Catus, the mercilessly greedy Procurator, badly misjudged the mood of the Britons. A misjudgement that led to something that had never happened before: a uniting of the Britannic tribes. Theft of inheritance, a viciously humiliating beating of Queen Boudica, and the rape of her daughters sets in motion a rebellion that grows into an unstoppable, often uncontrollable army. Weyland, a Briton and the son of a blacksmith, who as a boy was trained by a Roman soldier to fight as a Roman, becomes an unlikely player in Boudica's plans to draw the Governor into fulfilling his pledge to eradicate the Druids. Now, with the majority of the Roman army in the west of the country, Boudica sets about gathering together an overwhelming horde, hell-bent on revenge for years of occupation. There can be only one outcome: victory or death.

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