Historical - General

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The Outcasts: A Novel

Kathleen Kent

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping t...

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Published: Oct 2013

King's Captain (Alan Lewrie)

Dewey Lambdin

In this adventure, Lewrie is promoted for his quick action in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, but before he's even had a chance to settle into his new role, a mutiny rages through the fleet, and the sudden reappearance of an old enemy...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2015

The Beautiful American

Jeanne Mackin

[Read by Kate Reading] From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.As recovery from World War II begins, expatriate American Nora Tours t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2014

Watergate

Thomas Mallon

[Read by Joe Barrett] From one of our most esteemed historical novelists comes a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. For all the monumental docu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

The Crimson Rooms

Katharine McMahon

In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, the bestselling author of The Rose of Sebastopol presents a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post–World War I London.

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

The Gentle Axe: A Novel

R. N. Morris

Stumbling through Petrovsky Park one cold morning in search of firewood, an elderly woman makes a horrifying discovery. A burly peasant twirls in the wind, hanging from a bowed tree by a rope about his neck, a bloody axe tucked into ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2007

The Hundred Days the Hundred Days

Patrick O'Brian

When Napoleon escapes from Elba, the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. Napoleon, like a vengeful ph...

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Published: Apr 2007

The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brien

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New Wo...


Published: Jan 2014

Park Lane

Frances Osborne

When eighteen-year-old Grace Camell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Dear Mrs. Bird

A. J. Pearce

"A marvelous treat. Charming and delightful." --Nina Stibbe, author of Love, NinaAn irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist-- a warm, funny,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2018

Amanda Quick Collection 2: Second Sig...

Amanda Quick

Second Sight: Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the relics and artifacts collected by a highly...

Abridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

Bridge to Haven

Francine Rivers

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she' s paid to finally feel like she' s somebody. T...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2014

The Black Swan of Paris

Karen Robards

A celebrated singer in WWII occupied France joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from being killed in a German prison. In Occupied France, the Resistance trembles on the brink of destruction. Its operatives, its secrets,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2020

The Girl from Guernica

Karen Robards

Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece, Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war… On an April day in 1937, the sky open...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2022

The Library of Light and Shadow: A No...

M. J. Rose

In the wake of a dark and brutal war, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high-society set who are desperate to keep their gaze firmly fixed toward the future. But Delphine Duplessi sees more than most....

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2017

The Folded Earth

Anuradha Roy

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"   As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2017

The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter  Mrs. Braithwaite, self...

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Published: Jun 2019

Loyalty

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.     Fra...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2023

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civ...

Jeff Shaara

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl H...

Jeff Shaara

The New York Timesbestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II's Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Ro...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2020

Birds of Prey

Wilbur Smith

A simple mission. A battle for their lives.  \n\nIt is 1667, and the war between the Dutch and the English continues apace. Sir Francis Courtney, his son Hal and their crew are carried around the southern tip of the African ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2020

Blue Horizon (Courtney, 11)

Wilbur Smith

Jim sprang back on to the truck of the violently rocking wagon and stared across at Manatasee. She saw him and pointed her assegai at his face. Then he saw the length of slow-match had been exposed across the last yard of trampled ear...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...

Wilbur Smith

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2017

The Confusion (Baroque Cycle)

Neal Stephenson

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves — including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack — devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues — a perilous race for ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Saint Patrick's Battalion

James Alexander Thom

A stirring fictional account of the amazing real-life story of John Riley, an Irishman who led his men to desert the American military during the Mexican-American War, as seen through the eyes of two memorable narrators.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2006

All the Stars in the Heavens Low Pric...

Adriana Trigiani

The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2016

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc...

Mark Twain

Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Twain's work, this historical novel chronicles the French heroine's life, as purportedly told by her longtime friend--Sieur Louis de Conte. A panorama of stirring scenes recount Joan's ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

The Last Hours

Minette Walters

In an exciting new direction from an established author, bestselling British author Minette Walters brings her trademark suspense to a vivid historical novel that dramatizes the arrival of the Black Death in England in 1348 and the so...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2018

The New Countess (Habits of the House...

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the third book in a brilliant trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady I...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2013
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