Audiobooks narrated by Elisabeth Lagelee

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences. The letters abound with vivid illustrations of a life marked by wisdom as much as seeking. The daughter of a bourgeois Parisian Jewish family, Weil was a troublemaking idealist who preferred the company of miners and Russian exiles to that of her peers. An extraordinary scholar of history and politics, she ultimately found a home in Christian mysticism. A Life in Letters depicts Simone Weil's thought taking shape amid political turmoil, as she describes her participation in the Spanish struggle against fascism and in the transatlantic resistance to the Nazis. An introduction and notes by Robert Chenavier contextualize the letters historically and intellectually, relating Weil's letters to her general body of writing.

Simone Weil (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women who Styled the French Revolution

Josephine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Terezia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Recamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Josephine and Terezia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries. They slipped into light, mobile dresses, cropped their hair short, wrapped themselves in shawls, and championed the handbag. Juliette made the new style stand for individual liberty. The erotic audacity of these fashion revolutionaries conquered Europe, starting with Napoleon. Everywhere a fashion magazine could reach, women imitated the news coming from Paris. It was the fastest and most total change in clothing history. Two centuries ahead of its time, it was rolled back after only a decade by misogynist rumors of obscene extravagance. New evidence allows the real fashion revolution to be told. This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor.

Anne Higonnet (Author), Anne Higonnet, Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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A Jacket Off the Gorge: True Story of the Biggest Liar

A must-listen real-life psychological thriller Jon Fontaine's teenage years are shaped by his motivation to run a lucrative drug-selling enterprise. Despite the many tricks up his sleeve, the law catches up with him time after time. To escape a lengthy prison sentence, Jon bails out of jail and fakes his own death. He throws his jacket off a gorge, the pinnacle of a meticulously staged suicide. Police find the jacket and declare him dead, only to capture him later as a fugitive from justice. Seven years after the ruse, Jon meets Susan, who is unaware of his criminal past. And he's keeping a secret: he's stolen a treasure of ancient gold and silver coins. He will never give away its location. Jon sends Susan on a roller-coaster of love and fear, and exploits the weaknesses in the criminal justice system to work his biggest cons yet, ending in a trail of victims-and death. A Jacket Off the Gorge peels back the layers of the criminal mind, revealing a fascinating look at one man's struggles within himself and with others. Jon's story raises questions about incarceration versus rehabilitation, lack of mental health treatment for offenders, and abuses by those we entrust to uphold the law.

Susan Ashline (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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A Sword from the Embers

When a true heir awakens, a returning past can break. And when war follows, a lifelong vow may shatter. A RISE . . . Awakening from a dark defeat, Faythe discovers a greater threat to the life she took back. Staggering truths will challenge her and reveal that some bonds were forged to defy. With the battle lost, the war has just begun, and as an enemy is captured, it soon becomes clear a storm can be tamed but never bottled. A THRONE . . . Her return to Rhyenelle stirs Faythe's rival to the throne. In this new twist of fate, against the pressures of the court, it's a test of strength and will to keep her cunning cousin at bay. Two hands reaching for a crown is a challenge bound to end in blood, but which one will bleed for their right to reign? A PHOENIX . . . Still, no conflict in the realm can match that which began long ago. The time is now for Faythe to face her title of heir before kingdom. But not without the help of those tied in destiny may the Phoenix Queen rise should all burn and fall.

Chloe C. Peñaranda (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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[French] - L’Ombre d’un Doute

Rowyn et Tyrius sont de retour ! Et le monde ne sera plus jamais le même... Quand la Légion des anges m’a tuée, me transformant en ange avant de me ramener, j’ai cru que j’allais pouvoir me reposer un bout de temps. J’allais lever le pied... passer du temps de qualité avec mon elfe sexy. Mais je me trompais. J’ai survécu de justesse au combat avec l’archidémon Lucian quand un autre problème a surgi. Un prêtre a été assassiné et l’Église me demande mon aide. Les ténèbres retombent sur la ville. La magie et les relents d’un nouveau mal m’entraînent sur un chemin dangereux. Je ne vois pas comment survivre à cette nouvelle obscurité, même si je suis farouchement déterminée à combattre. Mais quand la vie d’un proche est menacée, je ne peux faire qu’une seule chose. C’est stupide, peut-être, mais c’est le seul moyen. Une chose est sûre. Si je tombe, je les entraînerai avec moi. L’Ombre d’un doute est une fantasy urbaine excentrique au rythme enlevé, peuplée de démons, anges, vampires, loups-garous, sorcières, fées, farfadets, djinns et métamorphes. Si vous aimez les livres de fantasy urbaine, les héroïnes coriaces, l’action, le suspense et l’humour, alors vous allez adorer L’Ombre d’un doute.

Kim Richardson (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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[French] - Sombre Destin

J’ai accepté une mission pour la reine des fées que je déteste, et maintenant, c’est l’enfer sur terre – au sens propre du terme. Désormais, je dois absolument réparer les dégâts que j’ai causés avant qu’elle ne crée de nouvelles horreurs avec la Grâce Blanche pour tous nous tuer – oui, ça aussi, c’est ma faute. Mais ce n’est pas tout. La Légion des anges a mis ma tête à prix pour le meurtre de l’archange Védriel. C’était de la légitime défense, bien sûr, mais ils s’en fichent éperdument. Hors de question que j’accepte la défaite sans me battre. C’est un boulot à plein temps d’essayer de sauver ma peau. Alors, comment pourrais-je en plus sauver la vie de tout le monde ? Ne ratez pas la suite palpitante de la série Ombre et Lumière !

Kim Richardson (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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[French] - Le Don de L’ombre

Ne manquez pas le prochain livre de la série Ombre et Lumière! Je pensais que ma vie ne pourrait pas aller encore plus mal, mais je me trompais. Une série de meurtres sanglants ébranle la ville de New York, et c’est mon devoir d’essayer d’attraper ces ordures avant qu’ils ne s’en prennent à leur prochaine victime. Pourtant, quelque chose sent mauvais dans cette histoire. Au sens propre du terme. Plus je creuse, plus cela empeste. Il s’avère que ces meurtres ne sont pas ce qu’ils semblent être. Ils sont bien pires encore. Et ce n’est pas tout. De nouvelles ténèbres se lèvent. Je n’avais encore jamais affronté cela auparavant, une puissance infiniment plus forte que moi. Oui, moi aussi, ça m’a fait un choc. Avec la Légion des anges toujours à mes trousses, je croyais qu’il ne pourrait rien m’arriver de pire que de voir ma tête mise à prix. Grosse erreur.

Kim Richardson (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, 2nd edition

Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste-about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne.

Rebecca L. Spang (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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[French] - Ombre et Damnation

Dans mon métier, c’est important de rester toujours occupé, et les nouveaux défis me maintiennent dans la course. Seulement, je ne m’attendais pas à ce que ce soit si rapide. D’accord, j’ai accepté le don de l’archidémon Lucian, dans l’espoir que cela me rende invincible... grosse erreur. Une ombre grandit en moi, incontrôlable. Elle me séduit, m’offrant le pouvoir de tout arranger, tout en consumant mon âme morceau par morceau. Mais si j’accueille les ténèbres, resterai-je la même ? Je ne suis plus la chasseresse d’autrefois. Je change déjà. Et ça me fiche une trouille bleue. Pire encore, Lisbeth a monté le Conseil Gris contre moi. Oui, et cela me vaut un petit voyage au Gibet silencieux. Youpi ! Mais ils ne peuvent pas se débarrasser de moi aussi facilement ! Certainement pas. Lisbeth et ses sbires ont intérêt à être prêts, parce que je viens la chercher...

Kim Richardson (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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Possessed

From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island. Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed-by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural. Contains mature themes.

Jowita Bydlowska (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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A Clash of Three Courts

In a war of hearts, fates will be sealed. But in a battle of thrones, no bond may be truly unbreakable. A COURT . . . To reclaim her throne, Tauria leaves behind her safety to travel across courts. A marriage alliance with the prickly Prince of Olmstone could grant her the power to fight for her kingdom . . . or inspire a monarch's deadly vengeance that threatens all she holds dear. A BOND . . . No amount of distance can make Nik forget his desires, but caught in a torturous conflict of heart against duty, he's at risk of losing both. Now is the time to choose. Claim the bond and accept the prophesy that kept him from her all this time . . . or set his aching heart-and hers-free once and for all. A DARKNESS . . . But peace is never promised when the shadow of war looms, and Tauria's harrowing discoveries foretell a damning fate of evil to all those who bear a crown. To love may be to condemn, but to deny would be a far deadlier curse at the hands of the sinister forces intent on taking them down.

Chloe C. Peñaranda (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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A Throne from the Ashes

As darkness descends, two destinies will merge. But as embers fly, one may rise from the ashes. A Kingdom . . . Far from the land she knows, Faythe is beckoned toward the secrets of her heritage. Through trials of her name and a challenge to her claim, does she have what it takes to rule? Faythe bears a future that haunts; Reylan harbors a past that lingers. At his side, what ignited in her heart is kindling, but letting her guard fall could break them . . . or make them stronger. A Quest . . . Now faced with a far deadlier evil than the king, a higher calling seems determined to turn the hourglass on Faythe's quest to save Ungardia. But she soon learns time isn't the only thing working against her. Darkness is rising, history is stirring, and the hunters are about to become the hunted. A Destiny . . . For fate cannot be outrun. Faythe's powers are manifesting beyond her control, and if she can't save herself, no one can. Defying destiny is not without consequence, yet Faythe may be willing to pay the highest price of all to forge a path to true freedom--for her kingdom, and for the ones she loves.

Chloe C. Peñaranda (Author), Elisabeth Lagelee (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Elisabeth Lagelee