Audiobooks by ANNA GOGOLEVA

LOVE UPON KNIVES.: A Novel of Passion and Sacrifice.

"St. Petersburg, 1795. The glittering capital of Catherine the Great—a city of palatial wealth and abject poverty, where a single misstep can cost a life and a single glance can change a destiny. Katya is nineteen years old, a floor-washer in the Winter Palace. Orphaned, illiterate, with nothing but her mother's river-pearl necklace and hands raw from lye, she expects nothing from life but more of the same: endless floors, endless servitude, endless invisibility. Until the night a fortune-teller comes to the servants' hall. The cards speak of a tower struck by lightning, a moon shrouded in deceit, and two lovers destined to walk on knives. Katya laughs—until she looks up and sees him standing in the doorway. Baron Karl von Kleist is the Prussian envoy to the Russian court: brilliant, cultured, married to a woman he does not love. He has spent twenty years building a career, a reputation, a life of cold calculation. He has never once looked at a servant as anything but furniture. But when his eyes meet Katya's across a candlelit room, something cracks inside him. Something he cannot name. Something he cannot control. What begins as a stolen glance becomes a secret meeting in a moonlit garden. A kiss on a callused hand becomes a duel in a snow-covered forest. A forbidden love becomes a desperate flight across borders—and a choice that will cost them everything. But in a world where nobles scheme and empresses watch, where Counts hunger for revenge and the Secret Chancellery hunts for spies, can a German baron and a Russian peasant build a life together? Can love survive the weight of empire? Based on the timeless themes of passion, sacrifice, and the eternal power of the human heart, Love Upon Knives is a sweeping historical romance that asks the oldest question of all: How far would you go for the one you love?"

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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THE HEN THAT LAID TIME.: A Novel-Thriller with Eggs, Sarcasm, and a Paranormal Investigation.

"Let me ask you something. Have you ever wanted something so badly that the entire universe seemed to conspire against you? Not just little things. Not just 'I wish this traffic would move faster' or 'I hope they haven't sold out of the good cheese.' No. Something real. Something that lives in your chest like a second heart, beating alongside the first one, reminding you every single day that you don't have it. Maybe it's love. Maybe it's a child. Maybe it's the one thing that would make your life feel complete — and everyone keeps telling you to be patient, to wait, to accept that some things just aren't meant to be. Now. Imagine you find a way to change that. Imagine you discover that the universe isn't random at all — that there are rules, ancient and hidden, and if you can just find the right key, you can unlock the door to everything you've ever wanted. Now imagine that key is a collection of fifty-two jewel-encrusted eggs made by a Russian jeweller for a dead empire. And that you're willing to steal every single one of them. (Pause. The music shifts — becomes warmer, more intimate) This is the story of Agrafena. In 1903, she was a lady-in-waiting at the court of Tsar Nicholas II. She had a good position, a decent wardrobe, and a problem that no amount of imperial favour could fix. She wanted children. The universe said no. But Agrafena wasn't the kind of woman who accepted 'no' from anyone — least of all the universe. So she found a book. She found a ritual. And she discovered that the Fabergé eggs — those glittering symbols of Easter, rebirth, and life itself — weren't just expensive toys for the empress to play with."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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[Italian] - IL RAGAZZO CHE DIVENNE SANTO.: Romanzo di Nicola, Vescovo di Mira

"Dalla polvere delle strade licie alla gloria eterna dei cieli: il romanzo definitivo sulla vita di San Nicola. Siamo alla fine del III secolo. L'Impero Romano, colosso dai piedi d'argilla, soffoca nella morsa di una crisi senza precedenti. L'aria odora di paura, i cristiani vengono gettati in pasto ai leoni e il sangue dei martiri bagna le arene. In questo mondo di tenebre e di sangue, un bambino tanto atteso nasce nella città di Patara, in Licia. Suo padre, il ricco mercante Teofane, lo promette a Dio ancor prima che impari a camminare. Sua madre, la pia Nonna, lo custodisce con lacrime e preghiere antiche, imparate da una misteriosa veglia alla fontana. Ma il destino di Nicola non è fatto di agi e ricchezze. La peste bussa alla porta, portandosi via i genitori. I parenti spogliano la casa. E un bambino di dieci anni si ritrova solo, con un vecchio schiavo di nome Ambrogio come unico maestro e padre. Insieme, fuggono verso Mira. Insieme, imparano che la vera ricchezza non si misura in denaro, ma in fede. Insieme, scoprono che la preghiera di un ragazzo puro può fermare le tempeste. Questa è la storia di come un orfano divenne pastore. Di come un prigioniero divenne vescovo. Di come un uomo, con la sola forza dell'amore, sfidò imperatori, domò mari, resuscitò morti e difese gli innocenti."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Nonno Ben (Narrator)

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The Apple of Knowledge.: THE DREAM OF CLEOPATRA . A novel about the one thing money can never buy...

"A novel about the one thing money can never buy... and the one thing we will destroy to possess. When the wealthy and powerful Boyarina Marfa witnesses a simple shepherd's love for a peasant girl, something inside her snaps. She has everything—status, land, the power of life and death over her serfs—but she has never been loved. Not truly. Not the way Mitri loves Natasha. Then Cleopatra comes to her in dreams. The ancient Queen of the Nile, dead for fifteen hundred years, offers Marfa the secrets of seduction that once made men drown empires. Milk baths. Forbidden perfumes. The art of becoming a treasure locked in a fortress, a prize worth pursuing. But when every lesson fails, when the shepherd chooses his simple love over his mistress's wealth, Cleopatra offers one final gift: a small, withered apple. The Apple of Knowledge. Eat it, and he will forget everything but you. His past. His love. His soul. All burned away. Set against the brutal beauty of medieval Russia—where winter lasts half the year, where peasants jump over Kupala fires in search of love, and where a woman's loneliness can curdle into something monstrous—this is a story about the difference between loving and possessing. About the fire that consumes and the sun that gives life. About the price of wanting what is not yours. For fans of Russian psychological fiction, dark historical romance, and stories where myth and reality intertwine."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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THE SISTERS OF MISFORTUNE.: A Novel of Witchcraft, Bad Decisions, and Fermented Dairy Products.

"Three witches. Three ancient traditions. One ritual that was supposed to guarantee eternal youth, unlimited luck in love, and a lifetime supply of free food. Instead, Helga, Ivet, and Gertrude wake up on a lawn in contemporary Russia, staring at a sign that reads 'GAS LAWN. FINE 5000 RUBLES.' Their pentacles display 'NO SERVICE.' Their crystal ball has exploded like a jar of pickled cabbage. And the only magic that still works is Gertrude's ability to bake perfect bread. To return home, they need seven ingredients. But in a world where mandrake root is replaced by ginseng from the pharmacy, virgin tears come from a woman weeping over subpar eclairs, and the blood of a black rooster is sourced from a white chicken with a black soul, nothing is quite what it seems. Their journey takes them from battling babushkas armed with ladles to collecting sacred cat spittle at the Duomo. They acquire a homicidal garden gnome named Fritz who has spent fifty years waiting for revenge against his orderly Swiss neighbors. They attempt to fly on a plastic broom that explodes more spectacularly than their dignity. And somewhere along the way, they begin to realize that getting lost might be the best thing that ever happened to them."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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The Repentance of a Russian Wife.: A Novel of Fire, Faith, and Forging an Empire.

"She was the first saint of Rus'. But before she was a saint, she was a wife, a widow, and an avenger. In the middle of the tenth century, a young woman from the northern forests named Olga is married to Igor, the Prince of Kyiv. It is not a fairy-tale romance, but a union of two lonely souls: Igor, a prince haunted by the ghost of a father he never knew and the fear of being seen as weak, and Olga, a girl raised by a shaman grandmother who taught her to remember everything. When Igor is brutally murdered by the Drevlian tribe—torn in two by bent birch trees as punishment for demanding excessive tribute—the world Olga knows collapses. Left with her young son, Sviatoslav, and a kingdom on the brink of chaos, she faces an impossible choice. The boyars see only a woman; the Drevlians see only a prize, sending envoys to force her into marriage with their own prince, Mal. But they have made a fatal mistake. They have underestimated the memory of a woman who never forgets. What follows is a campaign of calculated, terrifying revenge. Olga buries the first party of Drevlian envoys alive in a pit. She burns the second party to death in a bathhouse. She slaughters the third party at a funeral feast for her husband. And finally, she lays siege to the Drevlian capital of Iskorosten, using an ingenious and horrifying tactic—burning the entire city to the ground with the help of birds carrying lit tinder to their own nests."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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RUS': THE SEVEN KEYS.: A Historical Fantasy Novel About the Birth of Ancient Rus', the Power of the Clan, and the Eternal Choice Between Darkness and Light.

"Do you hear that call? In the smoke above the cold waters of the Volkhov River, a Name is being born. A name destined to become a destiny. A land where the Varangian sword meets the Slavic plow, and the whispers of ancient spirits drown out the clang of steel, awaits its hour. But the true battle for the future of Rus' is not fought on battlefields. It is woven in the shadows of the prince's hall, where three sisters spin a web of intrigue, and deep in the forest, where she lives—the one who sees the quantum thread of reality itself. Rus': The Seven Keys is more than a story of princes and warriors. It is a deep immersion into the mythology, politics, and soul of a people. Together with Prince Rurik, the wise witch Agrafena, and those who become the living embodiment of the seven pillars of Russian civilization, you will journey from the chaos of tribes to the birth of a great power. This is a novel about how Will, Mercy, Order, Memory, Knowledge, Truth, and Unity intertwine into one inseparable pattern—a pattern whose name is Rus'. In the year 862, the Viking chieftain Rurik is invited to rule the warring tribes of the Ilmen region. But his greatest enemy is not rebellious chieftains or foreign invaders. His enemy is the chaos in men's minds, and his weapon is not a sword, but a name for a new land. A name that must not be conquered, but remembered. He seeks counsel from one who lives on the boundary of worlds—Agrafena, a forest wisewoman who sees reality as a web of living energies. She teaches him a secret: the strength of a nation lies not in iron, but in the harmony of seven eternal archetypes. The Will of the Warrior (Rurik)."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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THE RED THREAD IN THE QUANTUM WORLD OF LOVE.: The Red Thread in the Quantum World of Love: Russia 1913–1956 — A Story of Entangled Hearts and Buried Truth.

"August 1913. Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire. They met at the moment when the world was still holding together on a wing and a prayer. Princess Marina Sheremeteva sees what others cannot — the threads of fate that bind people across time and space. She studies quantum physics and guards the secrets of village magic, passed down from her healer grandmother. Two men fall in love with her in an instant: Alexei, a passionate populist dreaming of revolution, and Stepan, a cynical raznochinets who clawed his way up from nothing. But their love becomes not a romance, but a sentence. When Marina uncovers a terrifying truth — that the revolution is being financed by German bankers to destroy Russia from within — she binds her beloved men with an ancient ritual. Red threads appear on their fingers. Now they feel each other's pain and joy. They are a quantum pair, inseparable even by death. But 1917 is coming. The empire crumbles. The truth, inscribed on a wooden spoon, becomes a deadly threat to the new masters of life. Little Andryusha, Marina's brother, carries this spoon through famine, civil war, and the Red Terror. He knows: if the spoon burns, the truth will remain in the people. 'The Red Thread in the Quantum World of Love' is a novel about how love becomes stronger than death, how memory triumphs over oblivion, how the Russian character survives in hell. They were bound by a red thread. It could not be broken. It could only be passed on."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Grandpa. S (Narrator)

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The Geometry of Mirrors - Secrets of a Courtesan.: A historical novel of forbidden passions, Venetian intrigues, and esoteric mysteries. Courtesan Venice mystery.

"In 18th-century Venice, Magdalena—a brilliant courtesan and scholar of the male psyche—uncovers an esoteric conspiracy that threatens to shatter the minds of the powerful. Between forbidden passions, mirrors that reflect nightmares, and a dangerous love affair with an enigmatic Chinese merchant, she must wield every weapon at her disposal: seduction, intellect, and the broken fragments of her own soul. A novel where the secrets of sacred geometry clash with the untamable chaos of the human heart."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Jessica Bagent (Narrator)

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[Italian] - IL TESORO RUBATO.: La Via Stellare del Pirata e della Stella Turca. Amore più forte della morte.

"Quando un pirata si innamora, ruba non il corpo, ma il destino. Álvaro de Vasconcelos non è un comune predone del mare. Scienziato che legge le stelle come un libro sacro, rapisce Leyla, orgogliosa figlia di un bey ottomano, vedendo in lei non un bottino, ma il più grande enigma dell'universo. Il loro cammino li condurrà attraverso la furia delle tempeste e i misteri del Triangolo delle Bermude, verso un antico tempio dove dorme il Sole Divoratore. Il suo odio si trasforma in fiducia di fronte a mostri e alla geometria sacra che governa il mondo. Il suo freddo calcolo si scioglie nel fuoco della passione. Nell'inseguimento della leggendaria Fonte dell'Acqua Stellare, affronteranno guardiani meccanici, cigni danzanti, specchi che materializzano il pensiero, e pagheranno un prezzo altissimo per la conoscenza. Ma il vero tesoro che Álvaro ha rubato, e che per sempre ha rubato lui stesso, è il cuore di Leyla. Un romanzo storico intriso di misticismo, dove la passione è più forte dell'oceano, e le leggi dell'universo sono scritte nelle stelle e nei cuori. Salpate per un viaggio epico sulle tracce del pirata astronomo e della sua stella rubata, dove l'amore è la preda più pericolosa e preziosa."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), NONNO BEN (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Sopravvivenza nella Taiga.: Il Sentiero di Alëša il Disubbidiente - Una Fiaba Russa di Coraggio e Magia Selvaggia: Perduto nella foresta selvaggia, un ragazzo impara le leggi della natura.

"Perduto nell'immensità selvaggia della Taiga. Solo un ragazzo disobbediente e gli insegnamenti segreti della foresta possono salvarlo. Quando il giovane e testardo Alëša ignora gli avvertimenti e si avventura troppo in profondità nella foresta, si ritrova solo, spaventato e disperatamente perduto nella vastità spietata della taiga russa. Senza cibo, riparo o una via di ritorno, la sua unica speranza di sopravvivenza risiede nelle lezioni che non ha mai voluto ascoltare. Ma la taiga, severa ma giusta, non lo abbandona del tutto. Dal folto emergono insoliti alleati: una scorbutica scoiattolo parlante con occhi saggi, un vecchio riccio brontolone che conosce ogni fungo velenoso, e persino le indicazioni misteriose di grilli cantanti. Questi magici aiutanti della foresta diventeranno le sue guide in un pericoloso viaggio di avventura, trasformando una punizione in un percorso straordinario di scoperta. Sopravvivenza nella Taiga è un'emozionante fiaba russa classica, un racconto di avventura per bambini (età 7-18) che mescola suspense, magia naturale e una profonda lezione di vita. Segui Alëša nel suo avventura nella foresta mentre impara a: - Decifrare i segreti della sopravvivenza: Orientarsi con il muschio, trovare acqua pura, riconoscere piante commestibili e funghi velenosi. - Ascoltare la saggezza antica: Comprendere il linguaggio del vento, il canto degli uccelli, i messaggi degli animali. - Trovare coraggio dentro di sé: Affrontare le ombre della palude, le tentazioni dello Spirito delle Acque e la propria vergogna."

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Nonno Ben (Narrator)

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The Silk Diary.: A Modern Geisha's Beauty Secrets – Timeless Japanese Rituals for Glowing Skin, Grace & Confidence.

"Self help beauty. 20+ step-by-step rituals (from matcha facials to kobido massage) Geisha-inspired mindfulness practices to cultivate grace under pressure Modern science meets tradition – why these methods work today AR-enhanced tutorials (scan QR codes for video demonstrations) Whether you're rushing through Tokyo or New York, let these pages be your onsen—a sanctuary where technology and tradition dance like cherry blossoms in spring. Your journey to radiant confidence begins with a single turn of the page...' Key Selling Points for Amazon Listing: Fully Illustrated – Watercolor visuals of Kyoto + diagrams for every technique Suggested Categories: Beauty & Fashion > Skin Care Self-Help > Confidence & Self-Esteem Art > Asian & Japanese"

ANNA GOGOLEVA (Author), Oxley (Narrator)

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