02651cim a2200397 i 4500 2790389692 TxAuBib 20250623120000.0 r 260609s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781666115413 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 166611541X sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT14106281 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Abé, Shana, author. The Second Mrs. Astor [Hoopla] / Shana Abe. Unabridged. [United States : Tantor Media, Inc, 2021. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 46 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Lauren Ezzo. Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their twenty-nine-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love-and becomes the press's favorite target. On their extended honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time-and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner. When the ship hits an iceberg close to midnight on April 14th, there is no immediate panic. The swift, state-of-the-art RMS Titanic seems unsinkable. As Jack helps Madeleine into a lifeboat, he assures her that he'll see her soon in New Y Four months later, at the Astors' Fifth Avenue mansion, a widowed Madeleine gives birth to their son. In the wake of the disaster, the press has elevated her to the status of virtuous, tragic heroine. But Madeleine's most important decision still lies ahead: whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own remarkable. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Women Fiction. Fiction. lcgft Audiobooks. Ezzo, Lauren, reader. Hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14106281?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh3964 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781666115413_180.jpeg Cover image BSBPL