Verona Westbrook has narrated 20 audiobooks on Listento.it by 16 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 39 ratings. The most-rated is The Rose Code.
The Rose Code
Summary
“The hidden history of Bletchley Park has been waiting for a master storyteller like Kate Quinn to bring it to life. The Rose Code effortlessly evokes the frantic, nervy, exuberant world of the Enigma codebreakers through the eyes of three extraordinary women who work in tireless secrecy to defeat the Nazis. Quinn’s meticulous research and impeccable characterization shine through this gripping and beautifully executed novel.” (Beatriz Williams, New York Times best-selling author of Her Last Flight) The New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. The year 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of East End London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. The year 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter - the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger - and their true enemy - closer....
©2021 Kate Quinn (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
An Unwavering Trust
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Two strangers with no one to turn to but each other. Fitzwilliam Darcy is in a difficult situation. His father is pressing him to propose marriage to the last woman in the world he would wish to take as his wife. With a fortnight to announce his betrothal, he makes the acquaintance of Elizabeth Bennet, who is in a predicament of her own. Could Darcy be willing to consider Elizabeth as a solution to his problem and to hers? And can Elizabeth ascertain enough of Darcy's character to trust him upon nothing but a first impression? Contains scenes with adult content.
©2015 L.L. Diamond (P)2018 L.L. Diamond
A Constant Love
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As Britain settles into a short-lived peace, the characters of Pride and Prejudice pick up very nearly where the novel left off, in a new series of stories focused on love and family. Elizabeth Bennet finds the joy of her marriage and honeymoon are followed by the demands of becoming Mrs. Darcy, all while helping her shy new younger sister come out into society. Georgiana Darcy must deal with more suitors than she expected, when she fears nothing more than once again being persuaded to think she is in love with the wrong man.
©2015 Sophie Turner (P)2017 Sophie Turner
A Change of Legacies: A Pride & Prejudice Continuation
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Book two of the Constant Love series. The preparations for Elizabeth’s birth and the beginning of Georgiana’s married life do not go as smoothly as either of them would wish, and they must each consider an alternate legacy for Pemberley as they encounter opposite sides of the same "what if?" Meanwhile, for the first time, Mary Bennet finds herself romantically interested in a man, but will her own character and his family get in her way? A story of love and family; the sequel to A Constant Love.
©2016 Sophie Turner (P)2018 Sophie Turner
Mistress
Summary
Listeners of Sophie Turner's more chaste Constant Love series should be aware that this novel contains decidedly adult content at certain parts of the story.
One night, to decide his entire life's happiness.
Chastened by Charles Bingley following Mr. Bennet's untimely death, Fitzwilliam Darcy determines he will offer marriage to Elizabeth Bennet, but she marries another.
Years later, a widowed Elizabeth is mistress of Longbourn, and has vowed she will never marry again. A house party at Netherfield brings them back together, but Darcy will have to win more than her heart if he is to have any chance at making her mistress of Pemberley.
©2017 Sophie Turner (P)2017 Sophie Turner
An Unexpected Turn of Events
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Thomas Bennet unexpectedly outlives his wife and must make his way in a new life. Can he use the opportunity to become a better man, or will he let this chance pass him by? This is the sequel to Mr. Darcy's Persistent Pursuit and Love's Fool: The Taming of Lydia Bennet and the finale of the Longbourn Unexpected series.
©2018 Elaine Owen (P)2018 Elaine Owen
Intriguing the Duke
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Elias, the handsome Duke of Westhampshire, has courted many women, but not for long. He doesn’t believe in commitment and flits from woman to woman, until he lays eyes on beautiful maid, Maria. Thinking her an easy target, he is shocked when she refuses his advances which angers, yet intrigues, him. Maria is shocked when the duke notices her but she has seen too many women leave the duke’s estate in tears, never to return again. While she views him as a heartless rake, she also finds her heart beating faster when the duke is around. When Elias finds himself unable to stop thinking about Maria, he turns on the charm one last time. But Maria refuses to end up used and discarded like the duke’s other women. Can the duke change his rake ways and open his heart? Will Maria be able to ever trust him?
©2019 Sophia Wilson (P)2019 Sophia Wilson
Sweet Surrender
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Family friendly romantic audiobook: When Lady Julianna ended her engagement to Lord Ackerley, Viscount Beaumont, during her first Season, she left London vowing never to return. Seven years later, she returns as chaperone to her niece and unfortunately Lord Ackerley is also in Town for the Season. Moving around the small circle of the town stirs up feelings she has kept hidden. Embarrassed and ashamed that she made a mistake in ending their previous relationship, she tries to avoid further contact. Ackerley, stunned by her second rejection, pursues her to discover the truth. Is it ever too late for a second chance at love?
©2017 Clean Reads (P)2017 Clean Reads
Genre: A Personal View
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Author, critic, and traveller Marina Vaizey in her second Lockdown Essay writes about her favourite story material: crime and pulp fiction. Murder! Violence! Terror! Mayhem! Chaos! Destruction! And even quotidian life. In ordinary guises. John D MacDonald, Daniel Silva, Robert B Parker, David Baldacci, James Sallis, Attica Locke, Don Winslow, Robert Crais, John Sandford, C J Box, Walter Mosley, Barry Eisler, why are these and scores of others the authors to whom I turn, my comfort stories, as they are for millions? How can it be comforting to be told about the many ways in which people meet death in dreadful ways and about the horrible ways in which people treat each other, and to be shown the myriad motives, from greed – personal and corporate – lust for power, distorted politics, sadistic impulses, and the like? Yes it is all fictional and evil doers often meet their justified ends. For many of the flawed characters who feature so large there are various forms of redemption. Moreover there are enough echoes of the real world for us to suspend disbelief. Both men and women enjoy thrillers, mystery, and crime. Yet it may still feel not quite respectable, somehow a guilty (sorry!) pleasure. Do these novels so often categorized as genre offer something the literary novel does not? The market is enormous, perhaps the largest in publishing. It is a cliché which may be true that only the Bible – say - outsells Agatha Christie. And then there are films and television, either original or adapted from novels.
©2019 Cv Publications (P)2020 Cv Publications
Rebellious Angel: Marsden Descendants
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Miss Angeline Marsden has a defiant nature and makes no apologies for it. Her parents would prefer she didn't participate in the local suffragette group, but she believes all women's voices should be heard. After she finds herself in trouble she can't extricate herself from, she has no choice but to turn to the one man she's always loved and who treats her like a sister. Much to the dismay of Lucian St. John, the marquess of Severn, he's always been drawn to Angeline. She's his one irresistible temptation; however, she's also his best friend's sister and off-limits. When she finds herself in a mess of her own making, he comes to her rescue and offers to marry her. Marriage is the last thing either of them expected, yet the one thing they both wanted but were too afraid to ask. Will they find a way to open their hearts to each other and obtain their Christmas wish?
©2018 Dawn Brower (P)2018 Dawn Brower
Penny the Railway Pup
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Penny's story is the fourth in Brian L. Porter's award-winning Family of Rescue Dogs series. It features a tiny terrier, abandoned in a particularly cruel manner and her subsequent adoption and life with the author and his family. From being attacked and needing emergency surgery to days out at the coast chasing seagulls and living in stately homes, Penny's life in Brian's pack of rescue dogs has never been anything but interesting and eventful. Listen to her charming story, a welcome addition to the Family of Rescue Dogs series.
©2019 Brian L. Porter (P)2019 Brian L. Porter
Christmas at Pemberley
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It’s Christmastime at Pemberley, and Lizzy is nervous to be hosting her first event. Her family is coming, and so is Lady de Bourgh. An unexpected and unwelcome guest also arrives. How can Wickham have the courage to show his face at Pemberley? Even worse, what is he doing to make poor Lydia so miserable? Lizzy and Fitzwilliam must unravel the details and deal with machinations that threaten their first Christmas together while helping to find Lydia a second chance to move past her marriage mistake and be happy. Join the Darcys, Bennets, and Bingleys for Christmas at Pemberley. This is a story intended for adults and contains love scenes between the married couple.
©2019 Abbey North (P)2020 Abbey North
Francine and the Art of Transformation
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In 1900s London, Francine is a ladies' maid, cast off without a character. But she is anything but a victim. Francine has a mission, to help other women survive their prescribed fates, and when she meets another cast-off - poor starving governess Miss Philpot - she transforms her into an independent woman. If she finds romance, so much the better.... Like in A Woman of Substance, we meet a woman who will not accept the fate designed for her. And moreover, she will train others to do the same.
©2018 Gerry Cameron (P)2018 Gerry Cameron
Stealing a Rogue's Kiss
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A determined wallflower... Lady Daphne Rosamond never thought of herself as missing out. She believes love will find her when the time is right. That is until she visits a fortune teller. Now, she is determined to create her own future. An unapologetic rogue... Marcus Wentworth, earl of Clarendon, is out for life's sinful pleasures. He’s made a name for himself charming the skirts off of every willing woman he encounters and offers no apologies. What’s more, he has no plans for settling down. A twist of fate... Determined not to grow old alone, Daphne takes fate into her own hands. Marcus made her a promise years ago, and she's ready for him to make good on it. He would give Daphne her first kiss once she was of an appropriate age. Not one to turn down a beautiful woman, he delivers on the promise. One passionate moment that neither will soon forget follows, but how could either of them have guessed where one stolen moment would lead?
©2018 Amanda Mariel (P)2019 Amanda Mariel
The Lives of Others
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Author, critic and traveler, Marina Vaizey, in her third lockdown essay, reflects on the books of figures in the changing façade of English society and the establishment. Missing people, even with telephones and emails. And music and theatre even with the incredibly generous digital provision. Digital just proves, too, that at least for us oldies, the live event trumps all. Even the best CDs are tinny to my ear (which is not a great ear) compared to even - well, perhaps, not quite the worst - bad live performances. And the cat pursues his independence. He disdains any other creature’s neediness and spurs the notion of any togetherness. It is reading - not domesticities or doing all the sorting and tidying that I have promised myself for so long, or fulfilling commissions to write - but reading that rescues the hours and days. Home with piles of books and what to read? Oddly, I discover looking at several thousand exhibition catalogues and monographs that art, although I have spent my life looking at what is portentously but I think accurately called material culture, does not save the world, however it may express the world. So what books from the piles on the floor and the tables and the serried rows on the shelves have almost accidentally proved the most totally absorbing? Books I never thought I would read, and if so, enjoy, but are somehow here, acquired for reasons long lost in the mist of the past.
©2020 CV Publications (P)2020 CV Publications
How to Care for a Lady
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Hannah, Lady Beeston, can't say she's sorry that her husband is dead. The past 10 years have been anything but blissful, and seeing as they culminated in her being shot (albeit accidentally), she just can't find it in her heart to be sad. But it leaves her with a bad leg and an uncertain future - two things she isn't sure she can get past. Dr. Graham Alcott is more than happy with his quiet bachelor lifestyle. He spends his days tending to the sick and his nights studying by candlelight. That is, until his colleague asks him to take on one very important patient. Life as they know it is about to change for the better, but will forces beyond their control keep them from fulfilling their true destiny?
©2016 Jerrica Knight-Catania (P)2017 Jerrica Knight-Catania
Photography and Art: Documents and Dreams
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Cv/VAR 154 publishes a study of photography and art in which authors Marina Vaizey and Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography from pioneers Hill and Adamson, William Fox Talbot, and Louis Daguerre to contemporary practitioners such as Andreas Gursky and Boris Mikhailov. The documentary power and graphic clarity of the medium challenged and persuaded artists such as Degas, Sickert, Andy Warhol, and Richard Hamilton, and innumerable creative voices. In their essays Marina and Anne explore the conjunctions and variations where document and dream intermingle, in a revolutionary medium which transformed the classical canons of Western tradition. The volume includes biographical details of leading figures and a guide to national collections and study centres. Cv acknowledges with gratitude the assistance of Collections and Archives at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Images, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fraenkel Gallery, The Estate of Garry Winogrand and Scala Group, Florence, in the process of research for the publication. The authors: Photography and Art Marina Vaizey is an art critic, lecturer and traveller; her books include The Artist as Photographer, 100 Masterpieces of Art; Great Women Collectors. She was the art critic for the Financial Times for four years, and The Sunday Times for 18. She has curated exhibitions and written many catalogues. She has been a trustee for several national museums. Anne Blood gained a Master of Art History (MA) at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She was the Assistant Editor at The Burlington Magazine and is now editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York.
©2020 Cv Publications (P)2021 Cv Publications
The Lowly Maid's Triumph
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When savage family sickness, and the unscrupulous embezzling steward, Mr. Craven, steals the Boone's family fortune, he snatches Sandra Boone’s idyllic childhood from her innocent hands. The heartbroken child finds herself in a place she never thought possible – destitute and begging on the dirty, dangerous streets for her next meal. When opportunity opens the door for a life of servitude to a wealthy family, Sandra, crushed by the harshness of her unfair years, finally thinks fortune may be turning her way. Instead, a fire of controversy unfolds, forcing her to flee. But where can the budding Sandra find refuge from the storm? Will she find her peace in London under the care and concern of the gentle-hearted Clement Lark, to whom she runs, or will the evil Mr. Craven, who plans to sever any loose ends that may expose his wickedness, track her down and extinguish the flickering flame of Sandra’s hope? The saga of Sandra's life blossoms, and like a flower crushed underfoot, the fragrance of her inner beauty and grace is released - a fragrance irresistible to Clement's heart. Against the dark backdrop of danger and intrigue, the colours of love begin to weave their masterpiece. Dolly Price writes wholesome historical romance. If you enjoy books by Dilly Court and other Victorian Romance writers, you will love this heartfelt novella by Dolly Price. Buy The Lowly Maid’s Triumph today and immerse yourself in this moving saga following the courageous young girl, Sandra, and her journey from dark destitution to a new life and the bright light of true love.
©2019 PureRead Ltd (P)2020 PureRead Ltd
Saltwick River Orphan
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Drugged and supposedly drowned by the mother who should have loved her, six-year-old Gwendoline is dredged from the Saltwick River. Poverty-stricken but rich in love, Mr. and Mrs. Paul love the tiny child as their own, until hard times and tragedy drive them to the workhouse. From this slavery, Gwendoline flees her present horror, only to run headlong into her unknown past, with consequences that tumble through the generations. Shocking secrets unravel, and family ties flail and unfurl in a Victorian saga that flows deeper than the river Gwen was thrown into as a child. Will the truth prevail to prevent further tragedy? Can love be found in the web of lies that has followed the innocent girl from her first breath until now? Immerse yourself in the historical Victorian saga of Saltwick River Orphan and find out.
©2020 PureRead Ltd (P)2020 PureRead Ltd
French Phrase Book - 1,001 Easy French Phrases
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Have you recently started learning French, but you’re not sure what the best method of learning is? Are you looking for the fastest, easiest way to boost your comprehension and learn to read and speak this incredible language? Then it’s time to try this audiobook! French is a brilliant language which millions of people enjoy speaking around the world - but how do you find the best tools to help you join them? Inside this ultimate guide, you’ll uncover everything you need to know to put you on the path to mastering French. Containing short essential French dialogues with vocabulary, this audiobook arms you with the vital knowledge you need to make sense of the French language and start speaking in no time. Plus, with this audiobook version, you can listen along to the stories and supercharge your listening skills no matter how busy you are! Here’s what you’ll discover inside: 15 essential dialogues for boosting your french conversation skills and learning how native speakers talk Two audio recordings of each story: one slow so that you can understand every word and one at normal speed A variety of topics so that you won't get bored Vocabulary lists after every story to make sure that you've understood every word English translations for every French word A free PDF of the audiobook to download And much more! So if you’re looking for the best way to kickstart your French skills and learn to speak like a native, then you’ve come to the right place. It’s time to take your learning into your own hands and begin your journey to becoming fluent in the amazing French language! Scroll up and buy now to supercharge your French learning today!
©2020 Central Park Language Learning (P)2020 Central Park Language Learning