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  In Dependence

  Sarah Ladipo Manyika

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  In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship 
  at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new 
  and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former 
  colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave 
  but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love. 
  This is a lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of 
  history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, ageing, faith 
  and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its 
  diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.

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  On the Trail of Maryam

  Nadia Harhash

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  Four women share the same name. One history binds their lives.
  In Jerusalem, a name echoes through generations: Maryam.
  Their story begins in a schoolyard, where four girls bearing the same
  name grow up side by side. Yet history has its own designs. As
  the years unfold, fate scatters them across cities and continents—
  Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah, and beyond—each Maryam
  following a different path through love, loss, faith, and survival.
  One remains in Jerusalem, witnessing a city transformed before her eyes.
  One is carried by marriage to Nablus.
  One grows up in Gaza and becomes a refugee of circumstance.
  One crosses the ocean in search of love and a new life in America.
  Threaded through their stories are the memories of a people shaped
  by exile, war, devotion, and longing. As their lives unfold, the meaning
  of the name Maryam deepens—touching the sacred, the historical,
  and the profoundly human.
  As past and present begin to echo across generations, the women
  named Maryam discover that a name is never just a name—it is
  memory, destiny, and a quiet resistance against forgetting. On the
  Trail of Maryam is a powerful literary journey into ide

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  The Curse of the Saltmarsh Girl...

  Clare Marchant

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  The dark marsh stretches around Margery. She can hear the sound of her mother’s voice, crying. Or is it the wind…? Will she get out of here alive? 
  1665: When Margery arrives in Saltmarsh looking for her mother, she finds silence, secrets, and backs turned. 
  But she is not the only thing that has arrived. As the Plague falls on the village, leaving almost no man, woman or child alive, rumours circulate – about a demon dog, about lights floating above the waters, about voices in the dark… And about a girl, one who has brought a curse. 
  With Margery’s mother missing, it becomes clear that these remote, desolate marshes are about to become the most dangerous ground she’s ever stepped on… 
  Now: A beautiful young opera singer named Angel Bailey has arrived in Saltmarsh. She’s there to visit her adoptive brother, but she’s also running away. Because, after years of longing to know where she came from, she’s received word from a woman claiming to be her sister, saying their birth mother’s dying wish is to meet the child she abandoned. 
  But when Angel becomes fascinated with the story of another mother and daughter, and a centuries old curse on the marsh, the land beneath her feet is about to shift forever… 
  Authors love Clare Marchant: 
  'Marchant’s usual magical blend of strong women, well-researched historical settings and riveting plotlines knocks another stellar novel out the park.’ Bestselling author, Jenni Keer 
  ‘I was completely hooked by this brilliant timeslip novel. Unmissable!’ Bestselling author, Louise Douglas 
  ‘A page turning historical novel that kept me guessing until the very end.’ Bestselling author, Rachel Burton

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  Anna Karenina part 8 - The epic...

  graf Leo Tolstoy

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  In the aftermath of unimaginable tragedy, the quest for meaning becomes a matter of life and death. 
  The eighth and final part of Tolstoy's monumental epic opens under the shadow of loss and the looming drums of the Serbo-Turkish War. Moscow society is swept up in patriotic fervor, but for the shattered Count Vronsky, the military campaign offers merely a dignified way to face death. Haunted by the horrifying memory of a love that ended in ultimate despair, he boards a train headed toward the battlefield, desperate to silence the agonizing guilt that pursues him. Meanwhile, in the quiet solitude of the Russian countryside, Konstantin Levin wrestles with his own existential crisis. Surrounded by his loving wife, Kitty, and their newborn child, Levin finds himself tortured by the terrifying question of life's purpose—until a chance conversation with a peasant sparks a spiritual awakening that will change him forever. 
  Listeners seeking the profound depths of Classic Literature will be utterly captivated by this majestic conclusion. Balancing philosophical inquiries, political tension, and sweeping character arcs, this audio edition immerses you in a rich tapestry of 19th-century Russian society, existential themes, and the breathtaking realism that continues to define the historical fiction genre. 
  About the Author: Graf Leo Tolstoy was a towering Russian novelist and philosopher whose works transcend their era. Renowned for his complex characters and sweeping portrayals of societal shifts, his masterpieces remain foundational pillars of global literature.

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  The Sirens of Heidelberg

  Kristopher Kurt Kiene

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When relentless rain tears open the hillside beneath Heidelberg Castle, something older than myth breaks free. 
  A chamber of black granite. A silver–lead seal shattered. 
  And a song no human mind was built to survive. 
  Journalist Lukas Bergmann is the first to hear it. A whisper behind the forehead. A promise of peace. A call to fall. 
  As bodies begin dropping from the castle terrace with serene smiles, Lukas realizes he is already marked. 
  Two unorthodox priests arrive in the storm, dragging with them secrets buried for nine centuries and weapons that look more like relics than salvation. Together they must ascend the soaked mountain, seal the chamber, and silence three ancient sirens before their combined voices turn Heidelberg into a mass grave. 
  But the song is inside Lukas now. And the closer they get to the source, the harder it becomes to tell where the melody ends and his own thoughts begin. 
  In the dark above the Neckar, something sings. 
  And it is hungry.

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  The Ghost of the Everliving Tree...

  Heather Cullum

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  Ben Platt is running from disgrace when a deer, a storm, and a forgotten logging road leave him injured in the redwood country of Northern California. Rescued and carried to the Dryad, an old bed-and-breakfast in the ghost logging town of Red Gap, he expects only a painful recovery and an expensive apology for a wrecked car. 
   
  But the Dryad has its own history. More than a century earlier, Daphne Lindstrom vanished into the forest, leaving behind only her hat, her gathering basket, and a mystery that never stopped haunting the town. When Ben begins to see a woman in white near the trees and hear a voice calling for help, he is forced to question whether his concussion is playing tricks on him—or whether Daphne is reaching through time. 
   
  The deeper Ben looks, the more Red Gap’s past comes alive: the lost redwood grove, the tree called Grand Daddy, an old marriage shadowed by obsession, and a secret rooted in love, grief, and betrayal. To uncover the truth, Ben must follow the ghost story into the heart of the forest, where the living and the dead are bound together by something older than memory. 
   
  The Ghost of the Everliving Tree is an atmospheric ghost mystery about redwoods, vanished lives, inherited sorrow, and the strange courage it takes to answer a call from the past.

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