Historical Audiobooks | Teen & YA

[German] - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder: 6: Der Eiserne

"Der letzte Teil des Abenteuers hat begonnen. Werden die Kinder die Heilige Stadt erreichen? Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf ein tragisches Abenteuer, das bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat."

Andreas Galk (Author), Aennie Jung, Albrecht Hoffmann, Andrea Jolly, Andrea Küstermann, Andreas Galk, Britta Noras, Emily Sichwart, Eva Galk, Frank Hangen, Johannes Jähnig, Klara Lange, Lisa-Marie Lehr, Lucia Gürster, Lynda Palitzsch, Malou Galk, Malte Janßen, Martin Petersen-Krause, Merle Krause, Nele Dierken, Nele Galk, Sabine Herresbach, Udo Jolly, Wiebke Bierwag, Yvonne Radtke (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder: 5: Das Meer

"Die Alpenpassage ist geschafft, der Kinderkreuzzug erreicht bei Genua das Meer. Ob Gott für die Kinder das Wasser teilt? Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf ein tragisches Abenteuer, das bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat."

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[German] - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder: 4: Unter dem Berg

"Die Alpen sind erreicht - und damit die letzte große Prüfung Gottes... Jedenfalls glauben die Kinder das... Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf ein tragisches Abenteuer, das bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat."

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[German] - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder: 3: Die Saat des Bösen

"Der Zug der Kinder setzt seinen Weg fort. Doch allmählich beginnt der Hunger an den Wandernden zu nagen. Unverhofft bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die weder Nikolaus noch Vater Magnus ausschlagen können... Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf ein tragisches Abenteuer, das bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat."

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The Moonlit Vine

"Despite her name, Taína Perez doesn’t know anything about her Taíno heritage, nor has she ever tried to learn. After all, how would ancient Puerto Rican history help with everything going on? There’s constant trouble at school and in her neighborhood, her older brother was kicked out of the house, and with her mom at work, she’s left alone to care for her little brother and aging grandmother. It’s a lot for a fourteen-year-old to manage. But life takes a wild turn when her abuela tells her she is a direct descendant of Anacaona, the beloved Taíno leader, warrior, and poet, who was murdered by the Spanish in 1503. Abuela also gives her an amulet and a zemi and says that it’s time for her to step into her power like the women who came before her. But is that even possible? People like her hardly make it out of their circumstances, and the problems in her home and community are way bigger than Taína can manage. Or are they? A modern tale with interstitial historical chapters, The Moonlit Vine brings readers a powerful story of the collective struggle, hope, and liberation of Puerto Rican and Taíno peoples."

Elizabeth Santiago (Author), Almarie Guerra (Narrator)

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Sisters of Sword and Shadow

"What if the Knights of the Round Table had been women? An epic fantasy from the UK’s leading and bestselling feminist writer Laura Bates - perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas. This afternoon Cass's older sister will be married. Soon she will be too. Gone will be days of running through fields and feeling the earth between her toes. So when a beautiful leather‑clad woman rides up and offers to take her away, Cass doesn’t hesitate to join her. Cass is introduced to the Sisterhood of Silk Knights - a group of women training to fight and working to right the wrongs of men. Cass is drawn into a world of ancient feuds, glorious battles, and deadly intrigue, where soon discovers she holds a power that could change the destiny of her sisterhood. “An interesting thing happens, when a man is defeated in combat by a woman.” “He tells nobody.” The first in a breathtakingly book in this rich and sweeping fantasy duology that explores questions about power, courage and the stories we tell about the past."

Laura Bates (Author), Robyn Holdaway (Narrator)

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Assassin's Creed: Fragments: The Highlands Children

"Discover this action-packed Assassin’s Creed®: Fragments novel about siblings tested and separated by the bloody carnage of war between England and Scotland. Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing. The wars of independence for Scotland are on the brink of changing the history of Great Britain. Under assault from King Edward I, the besieged city of Berwick-upon-Tweed is delivered into the hands of the English, who massacre and burn everything in their path. Aileas and Fillan, 16-year-old orphan twins, get separated on that horrific night. Aileas is carried away and disappears while Fillan manages to join forces with a Scottish clan fleeing to the north, into the very heart of the Highlands. The young man understands that they are to meet a mysterious group named the Brotherhood of Assassins, the only ones capable of protecting Fillan from the Order of the Templars, a group of warriors doggedly pursuing him. While he tries to find any trace of his sister, Fillan must delve into his past to understand his true destiny and discover why the birthmark he carries on his wrist makes him a target for the Order. He must find out why his life is suddenly in danger, just as the cry for liberty resonates across all Scotland."

Alain T. Puysségur (Author), Samuel Roukin (Narrator)

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Artifice

"A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of World War II, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places. Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city's palette. The 'degenerate' art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, her best friend, Truus, fled to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country's heritage, feeding the Third Reich's ravenous appetite for culture and art. So when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay. She sells them a fake-a Rembrandt copy drawn by her talented father-a sale that sets Isa perilously close to the second most hated class of people in Amsterdam: the collaborators. Isa sells her beautiful forgery to none other than Hitler himself, and on the way to the auction, discovers that Truus is part of a resistance ring to smuggle Jewish babies out of Amsterdam. But Truus cannot save more children without money. A lot of money. And Isa thinks she knows how to get it. One more forgery, a copy of an exquisite Vermeer, and the Nazis will pay for the rescue of the very children they are trying annihilate. To make the sale, though, Isa will need to learn the art of a master forger, before the children can be deported, and before she can be outed as a collaborator. And she finds an unlikely source to help her do it: the young Nazi soldier, a blackmailer and thief of Dutch art, who now says he wants to desert the German army. Yet, worth is not always seen from the surface, and a fake can be difficult to spot. Both in art, and in people. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who sold fakes to Hermann Goering, and Johann van Hulst, credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam, Sharon Cameron weaves a gorgeously evocative thriller, simmering with twists, that looks for the forgotten color of beauty, even in an ugly world. “War, resistance, and art are Cameron’s canvas; her palette is a balance of trust and perfidy, beauty and defiance, new life and old. Artifice is a vibrantly-hued and many-layered story, exploring our very human inability to spot a fake when we long to believe that the object of all our desire is the real thing.” -- Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity * 'Painterly prose...filled with rich intrigue depicts constantly shifting issues of trust in this complex, absorbing tale.' -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"

Sharon Cameron (Author), Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder: 1: Schwestern

"Köln im Jahr 1212 n.Chr. - ein Jugendlicher namens Nikolaus schart eine große Menge Kinder um sich, um mit ihnen in das Heilige Land aufzubrechen und Jerusalem von den Moslems zu befreien - ohne Waffen, ohne Heer. Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer mit auf ein tragisches Abenteuer, das bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat."

Andreas Galk (Author), Aennie Jung, Albrecht Hoffmann, Andrea Jolly, Andreas Galk, Britta Noras, Emily Sichwart, Eva Galk, Frank Hangen, Johannes Jähnig, Klara Lange, Lisa-Marie Lehr, Lucia Gürster, Lynda Palitzsch, Malou Galk, Malte Janßen, Martin Petersen-Krause, Merle Krause, Nele Dierken, Nele Galk, Sabine Herresbach, Udo Jolly, Wiebke Bierwag, Yvonne Radtke (Narrator)

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Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian

"Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian continues the story of Mi’kmaw guide Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothuk community. In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel, having parted ways with Cormack at St. George’s Bay, Sylvester decides to go out on his own, in search of the winter camp of the last of the remaining Beothuk. Written as fiction by two Mi’kmaw authors, Suliewey supports Mi’kmaw oral history of friendly relationships with the Beothuk. The novel reclaims the settler narrative that the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland were enemies and represents an existing kinship between the Mi’kmaq and the Beothuk. Rich in oral history, the descriptions of traditional ceremonies and sacred medicines, the use of Mi’kmaw language, and the teachings of two-spirit place readers on the land and embed them in the strong relationships described throughout the book."

Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe, Sheila O'neill (Author), Sheila O'neill (Narrator)

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Egypt Exodus: A Donkey Ollie Adventure

"Egypt Exodus is a wonderful story - A donkey, a raven and a boy must take on the might that was ancient Egypt. When the young boys and girls are kidnapped by servants of Pharoah Ramses and taken from Bethany a small town outside of Jerusalem and marched through the Sinai Desert to Egypt their families are distraught. Donkey Ollie, Rupert and Jehu follow after them intent and setting them free from a lifetime of bondage as their forefathers had suffered during the centuries of Egyptian servitude. Can Jehu win a chariot race that will bring them freedom? Can Ollie and Rupert escape from being captured and imprisoned by the Pharoah. Listen to this rollicking adventure while traveling in the car or plane or simply resting in your own home with the little ones."

Brian Stewart (Author), Sidney Stewawrt (Narrator)

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Wrath Becomes Her

"2024 Sydney Taylor Book Award Young Adult Honor "Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." -Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf - an ancient and profane magic - to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen kisses amidst the tragedy, and of a grisly death. And when she meets Akiva, she recognizes the boy with soft lips that gave warm kisses. But these memories aren't hers, and Vera doesn't know if she gets-or deserves-to have a life beyond what she was made for. Vera's strength feels limitless-until she learns that there are others who would channel kishuf for means far less noble than avenging a daughter's death. As she confronts the very basest of humanity, Vera will need more than what her creator gave her: Not just a reason to fight, but a reason to live. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Aden Polydoros (Author), Emily Lawrence (Narrator)

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Historical Audiobooks in Teen & YA