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The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272581 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272581] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widow of the South Author: Robert Hicks Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Lorna Raver, Scott Brick, Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.

The Orphan's Dream by Dilly Court

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248213 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248213] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orphan's Dream Author: Dilly Court Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her ruthless stepmother. She is taken to a place of refuge by charismatic sea captain, Jack Starke. But the safe haven turns out to be a house of ill-repute. Here she becomes a parlour maid and catches the eye of an elderly, retired army officer, Hubert Kettle. Mirabel has fallen in love with Jack Starke but when she hears that his ship has foundered and all were lost, she has little choice but to accept Hubert’s offer of a home and marriage. Although desperately unhappy, Mirabel is determined to make the best of her life. Until she receives unexpected news and her life is thrown into turmoil once more.

The Crescent Spy by Michael Wallace

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248990 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248990] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crescent Spy Author: Michael Wallace Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 10, 2015 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Writing under a man’s name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington’s Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails to get the scoop on the latest Union and Confederate activities. But when a rival paper reveals her true identity, accusations of treason fly. Despite her claims of loyalty to the Union, she is arrested as a spy and traitor. To Josephine’s surprise, she’s whisked away to the White House, where she learns that President Lincoln himself wishes to use her cunning and skill for a secret mission in New Orleans that could hasten the end of the war. For Josephine, though, this mission threatens to open old wounds and expose dangerous secrets. In the middle of the most violent conflict the country has ever seen, can one woman overcome the treacherous secrets of her past in order to secure her nation’s future?

Little Girl Lost: A gripping and emotional historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller by Val Wood

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248215 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248215] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Girl Lost: A gripping and emotional historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Author: Val Wood Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 5, 2015 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull. Her adored father often travelled by sea to the Netherlands, leaving her with an unaffectionate mother and only her imagination of a little Dutch girl to keep her company. When tragedy strikes and her father’s ship goes down in a storm, devastation ravages her tiny family. A few years later, Margriet is blossoming into a kind young lady. Keen to escape her mother and strike out on her own, she forms an unlikely friendship with some of the street children who roam the town. As Margriet acts upon her inspiration to help them, will the troubles of her past break her spirit, or will she overcome? If you've liked books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heart-rending stories of triumph over adversity.

I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247278 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247278] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Was Amelia Earhart Author: Jane Mendelsohn Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .