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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. “Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women—cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives—answered their nation’s call. These “munitionettes” worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear.
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- De Ana Reader en 03-17-24
- The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
JC knocks it out of the park!
Revisado: 04-08-25
Love the story. Anything by Ms. Chiaverini is well researched and a great story. Ms. Saskia Marleveld is my favorite narrator. Her voice floats over the words, dipping between accents effortlessly. So enjoyable. Every time. Thank you to everyone who put this book together.
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Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
- Duración: 1 h y 22 m
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Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.
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fun fantasy science + historical fiction
- De Leslie MN en 09-01-22
- Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
Powerful, so cool!!!
Revisado: 01-19-25
Worth it. Very short story, usually I wouldn’t read. This one is worth it. Super cool. Love Kate Quinn!
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The Briar Club
- A Novel
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own.
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Best writing and narrator!!
- De KareBear en 08-07-24
- The Briar Club
- A Novel
- De: Kate Quinn
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
It’s Kate Quinn!
Revisado: 01-19-25
Anything by this author is good- well researched, great story, awesome narrator. Lots of characters, but the way she writes I could keep track of who’s who. I want to paint a vine of flowers on my wall now. Love this book, didn’t want it to end. I feel like she could write a part II.
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The Flight Girls
- De: Noelle Salazar
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It’s why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it’s why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as treasured as the women with whom she flies. Then one fateful day, she gets caught in the air over Pearl Harbor just as the bombs begin to fall, and suddenly, nowhere feels safe.
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Left wanting more...
- De Lora B en 08-06-19
- The Flight Girls
- De: Noelle Salazar
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
Nice, lacked depth
Revisado: 12-28-24
Wanted more. Main character didn’t seem to struggle much, like everything was easy for her, men loved her, wealthy. There was adversity, but something missing. Narrator dripped out words way too much, overly dramatic sometimes. Was overall ok. Good read if u want something light.
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The Secret Midwife
- De: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Occupied Poland, 1942: Despite the constant presence of German soldiers in her village, Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife—the most precious is innocently cycling past Nazi checkpoints to the homes of expectant mothers on her rounds. But Emilia has a secret: for years she’s also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance…until she is betrayed.
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Everyone needs to read this.
- De Matt Mole en 10-31-23
- The Secret Midwife
- De: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
There’s always hope
Revisado: 06-30-24
Wow. So powerful. Was afraid it would be depressing, but it was inspiring to the deepest places. This one gets at ur gut. So wonderfully written, as always is w Soraya Lane. Love her books, the history is packed in there. So many rabbit holes to follow when I finish the story to learn more. How strong these characters- but they feel so real. Felt like I was there. And I get when all else is stripped away, where and how one holds on. Or chooses to let go. We must remember what they went thru, never forget.
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The Bletchley Women
- De: Patricia Adrian
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde, Antonia Whillans
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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In a different world, Evie Milton would have accepted her fate, married an aristocrat and become the doyenne of one of England’s finest estates, just like her mother. In a different world, Rose Wiley would have married her fiancé, David, established a modest homestead and brought up a brood of babies, just like her mother. But this isn’t a different world, and these women are not their mothers. Rose dreams of a life filled with more than family and duty to her husband—a life of purpose—and Evie dreams of a life far away from her rarefied existence.
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What on earth is wrong with this narration???
- De Ashley Glover en 06-28-22
- The Bletchley Women
- De: Patricia Adrian
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde, Antonia Whillans
Fishnets!
Revisado: 06-13-23
Loved this story. Amazing. It follows two women thru WWII and how their lives are changed- women getting jobs, changing roles, and dying nylons. I felt the growth in these women, tackling issues that resonate across generations and cultures. I like that we saw the flaws. It made them more real. Narrators captured the characters well. Some background noises at times but not too distracting. Couldn’t put this book down. Highly recommend. And here’s to the fishnets!
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The Girl from Guernica
- De: Karen Robards
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it’s only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was responsible, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas, the gestapo will silence them—by any means necessary.
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Amazing story
- De Anna en 10-27-23
- The Girl from Guernica
- De: Karen Robards
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
Great historical story
Revisado: 01-18-23
Little overly dramatic by narrator, that made it distracting at times. The story was great, so many twists and turns, harrowing moments. Loved the spy, OSS references. Great book. Highly recommend. Author is awesome.
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The London Girls
- De: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London.
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The London Girls
- De Brenda Welchel en 07-04-23
- The London Girls
- De: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrado por: Sarah Zimmerman
So Cool
Revisado: 12-03-22
Love these stories about WWII women who break thru gender barriers and find their own power. Good story, couldn’t put it down.
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Resistance Women
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American - Mildred Fish Harnack - and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin.
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One of THE best historical fiction WW2 books!
- De JeanAnn Trombley en 06-04-19
- Resistance Women
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
Relevant to now
Revisado: 10-22-22
Amazing story. Amazing women. Reading about build up to hitler’s power is important to. understand cause the pattern repeats in politics today. The parallels are there. But how come we’ve never heard about these women before! Based on real events. So much detail, you really see what was happening as it happened. Not easy material, heartbreaking, powerful. Worth it.
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A Life in Secrets
- Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
- De: Sarah Helm
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 19 h y 19 m
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As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for 12 of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe.
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we will never know much of what she knew/did
- De reader mother en 02-15-20
- A Life in Secrets
- Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
- De: Sarah Helm
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
Awesome
Revisado: 05-05-22
Now I want to listen to it again. So many details, it’s hard to follow initially. So many threads to unravel. Interesting. Intriguing.
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