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  On Leaving Charleston

  Alexandra Ripley

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  This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga— begun in the bestselling Charleston— traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking abandon and dazzling innocence, Garden dances through Paris, London, and New York as the twenties roar— until betrayal turns the glitter to bitter ash— until vengeful secrets of the past send her home to Charleston, a city waiting to embrace its own or exact revenge.

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  محمد الإنسان الذي أضاء العالم...

  نشوى الحوفي

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  هذا العمل ليس مجرد كتاب يُقرأ… 
  بل رسالة تُسمَع، وتُعاش، وتلامس القلب قبل العقل. 
  في هذا الكتاب الصوتي، نقترب من سيرة النبي محمد ﷺ لا بوصفها أحداثًا تاريخية تُروى، بل كحكاية إنسانية كبرى تشكّلت في زمنٍ قاسٍ، وحملت للإنسان معنى الرحمة، والعدل، والكرامة. 
  تأخذك هذه التجربة السمعية في رحلة هادئة وعميقة:من صمت الصحراء قبل البعثة،إلى ولادة النور في عالمٍ مثقل بالظلم،إلى صوت الوحي وهو يلامس قلب إنسانٍ اختاره الله ليحمل أثقل الأمانات،إلى لحظات الصبر، والخذلان، والثبات،حتى تتشكّل ملامح المشروع الأخلاقي الذي غيّر وجه التاريخ. 
  اللغة هنا ليست خطابًا ولا وعظًا مباشرًا، 
  بل سردٌ روحيٌّ متوازن، 
  ممزوج بالتأمل، 
  يُروى بصوتٍ يمنح الكلمات مساحة لتتنفّس، 
  ويترك للسامع وقتًا للتفكير والشعور. 
  هذا الكتاب الصوتي مناسب لمن:يفضل الاستماع العميق أثناء السفر أو العزلة،يبحث عن فهمٍ هادئ للسيرة بعيدًا عن الجدل،يريد أن يسمع السيرة كقصة إنسانية نابضة بالحياة،أو يحتاج إلى جرعة نور وسط ضجيج العالم. 
  إنه ليس فقط استماعًا… 
  بل مرافقة روحية، 
  وصوتٌ يذكّرك بأن النور يبدأ دائمًا من الداخل.

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  Hidden in the Heart - Sussex...

  Beth Andrews

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  Finished listening to all of Bridgerton? Discover your next favourite regency romance novelist, Beth Andrews. 
   
  While her older sister is being presented to London Society for the season, Lydia Bramwell is sent to her Aunt Camilla in the Sussex countryside. High-spirited Lydia expects a very dull visit, but her sojourn to the village of Diddlington is not as idyllic as she anticipates . . . 
   
  A charred and bludgeoned corpse is found in the woods, and suspicion falls on Lydia’s aunt’s suitor, an intriguing Frenchman. Convinced of his innocence, Lydia enlists the help of her new friend, John Savidge, to catch the real killer. But before their dangerous adventure ends there will be more than one unexpected discovery. 
   
  Fans of Julia Quinn, Wendy Soliman, Mary Balogh, Jenny Hambly, Lisa Kleypas, Jean Rowden’s historical mysteries or Jane Austen will love this romantic regency murder mystery.

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  3 Stories Set in Hotels - A trio...

  Ralph Plummer, M R James, O Henry

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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. 
   
   
  01 - 3 Stories Set in Hotels 
  02 - Rats by M R James 
  03 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry 
  04 - Parlour Tricks by Ralph Plummer 
   
   
  01 - 3 Stories Set in Offices 
  02 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  03 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  04 - From A to Z by Susan Glaspell 
  05 - The Romance of A Busy Broker by O Henry

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  Sleepless in Scotland -...

  May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey

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  Pennington family Series 
  A WOUNDED HERO...
  A WOMAN WITH SECRETS...
  A KILLER LURKING IN THE MISTS...
  SCANDAL, LOVE, AND THE HAND OF FATE...
   
  Captain Ian Bell is a tortured man fighting through grief and guilt over the loss of his sister. Now, three years later, Ian still hunts for her murderer in the dangerous criminal underworld of Edinburgh. Then one night, a young woman narrowly escapes death and lands at his feet...his late sister's best friend, Phoebe Pennington.
  Lady Phoebe Pennington—dreamer and storyteller to her family—is a committed reformer writing articles anonymously for an Edinburgh newspaper. One night, Phoebe descends into the corrupt and seething netherworld known as the Vaults. When she tries to save a street urchin from an assailant, she becomes the target of a violent attack, only to be saved by the one man she has desired for years.
  Ian's attraction to Phoebe is as undeniable as it is unexpected, and she awakens in him passions he thought long dead. Phoebe's blood burns for Ian, but when she learns that he may be implicated in the scandal she is set on exposing, she finds herself torn between love and truth. But fate is taking a hand, for Phoebe is the only one who has seen the face of the killer, and the shadows of evil are closer than they imagine.

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  Old Man's Love An

  Anthony Trollope

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  Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields of South Africa. Gordon’s sudden return after a three years’ absence, on the very day of Whittlestaff’s proposal, precipitates the crisis at the center of the story. 
  An Old Man’s Love is Trollope’s last completed novel, finished just seven months before his death.

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