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  The Last Man - A Novel of the...

  Thomas Goodman

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  "A novel as compelling as the incredible true story it's based on." James Wade, two-time Spur Award-winning author of Hollow Out the Dark. 
  When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun. 
  The fake white beard hides his identity from his neighbors while he and three others take everything. But their easy heist goes sideways fast when armed lawmen and citizens assemble to claim a new reward for dead bank robbers. 
  Taking hostages, the gang forces a path through a frenzied and bloody shootout, setting the whole Lone Star state on their trail. 
  One bandit dies in the getaway. One is executed in the electric chair. One swings from a rope in a mob lynching. The last man finds a life he always hoped for … if only he can keep it. 
  Closely based on a true story, The Last Man is a gritty Prohibition-era Western novel filled with flawed characters and second chances. 
  "Do not miss this fabulous Texas tale!” Kathleen Y’Barbo, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Black Midnight and the Bayou Nouvelle series.

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  Death at Blenheim Palace

  Robin Page

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  Marlborough Hall, 1154. According to British lore, this ancient palace once hosted a torrid love affair between young King Henry II and a teenaged Rosamund, right under the patrician nose of his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. To keep his mistress safe from his scorned wife, Henry built Rosamund a house once could only reach by labyrinth—and only then with a spool of thread. But his titanic efforts proved futile when he found the girl poisoned to death—and along with his only love died the secret of the killer's identity... The Site of Marlborough Hall, 1903. The current Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have invited husband-and-wife sleuths Charles and Kate Sheridan to what is now Blenheim Palace, for Kate is working on a book about the age-old scandal that became known as the Marlborough Folly. But as she tries to pull together pieces of the mystery, Kate must set aside her research and lend a hand when a household maid is kidnapped—and, not long afterward, the duke and his mistress disappear. However, Kate my have set aside her work too soon. For as the intrigue unfolds, it holds and uncanny resemblance to a certain Marlborough Folly...

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  Pelle the Conqueror

  Martin Andersen Nexø

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  When the first part of "Pelle Erobreren" (Pelle the Conqueror) appeared in 1906, its author, Martin Andersen Nexo, was practically unknown even in his native country, save to a few literary people who knew that he had written some volumes of stories and a book full of sunshiny reminiscences from Spain. And even now, after his great success with "Pelle," very little is known about the writer. He was born in 1869 in one of the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, but spent his boyhood in his beloved island Bornholm, in the Baltic, in or near the town, Nexo, from which his final name is derived. There, too, he was a shoemaker's apprentice, like Pelle in the second part of the book, which resembles many great novels in being largely autobiographical. Later, he gained his livelihood as a bricklayer, until he somehow managed to get to one of the most renowned of our "people's high-schools," where he studied so effectually that he was enabled to become a teacher, first at a provincial school, and later in Copenhagen.

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  Manak-na's Story: 75000 BC

  Bonnye Matthews

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  "Bonnye Matthews is America's preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.
  
  Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC is book 2 in the popular Winds of Change series, a prehistoric fiction series on the peopling of the Americas.
  
  Manak-na hears of an opportunity to take a great adventure. He has raised his children and feels that his time has come to live his dream. Manak-na adventures from China/Mongolia by boat to Mexico and returns, having promised his wife he will limit his adventures to one. Can he keep his promise?
  
  
  The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago?
  
  "What author Bonnye Mathews has managed to do is to expertly craft a series of notably entertaining novels that incorporates new data into an historical fictional accounts that bring these ancient peoples alive." -Midwest Book Review

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  Nirmala

  Munshi Premchand

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  A teenage girl becomes a bride to a much older widower after her family’s sudden financial ruin. Nirmala enters her new household with quiet strength, determined to accept the life that has been chosen for her. 
  What follows is a story shaped by duty, suspicion, and the heavy expectations placed on women. As tensions grow within the family, Nirmala’s patience and dignity are tested in ways she never imagined. 
  In this powerful novel, Premchand examines the harsh realities of the dowry system and the pressures of tradition. Nirmala remains one of the most moving and enduring works of Hindi literature.

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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest tragedies are not born from evil, but from ordinary hopes placed in the wrong hands? 
   
  In *Middlemarch*, George Eliot creates one of the most profound portraits of human ambition, marriage, reform, and moral consequence in English literature. Set in a provincial Midlands town between 1829 and 1832, the novel follows intersecting lives shaped by idealism, vanity, duty, money, love, politics, and the quiet pressure of society. 
   
  Dorothea Brooke longs for a life of spiritual purpose, only to discover that noble dreams can become prisons when joined to the wrong vision. Tertius Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch with scientific ambition and reforming zeal, but finds himself entangled in debt, marriage, reputation, and compromise. Around them, Eliot builds a living community where every choice ripples outward, binding private desire to public consequence. 
   
  First published in 1871–1872, *Middlemarch* is widely regarded as George Eliot’s masterpiece and one of the great achievements of realist fiction. Its questions remain painfully modern: how do we choose well, how do we misjudge ourselves, and how much of a life is shaped by society before we even understand our own desires? 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, guiding the listener through Eliot’s psychological insight, social detail, moral irony, and vast human sympathy with precision and depth. 
   
  Enter Middlemarch and experience a classic not about escape, but about the difficult art of seeing life clearly. Begin listening today.

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