Historical - General

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The Winter Ghosts

Kate Mosse

Unabridged, 4 CDs, 5 hours Read by TBA By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome (N...

Steven Saylor

"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" -USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Desert God CD: A Novel of Ancient Egy...

Wilbur Smith

Ex-slave. Philosopher. Chosen one. Taita has risen from nothing to become the most trusted man at the Pharaoh's side. Only he can plot a mission that will return Egypt to its former glory. Only he can muster the force that can break t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

One Thousand White Women: The Journal...

Jim Fergus

Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

By Order of the President (Presidenti...

W. E. B. Griffin

Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2004

Gods and Generals

Jeff Shaara

The lives and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--reach a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. Read by...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2003

Never Seduce a Scot

Maya Banks

Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

The Signature of All Things: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, in...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

The Art Forger

B. A. Shapiro

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, i...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Year of Wonders of the Plague

Geraldine Brooks

Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA In 1666, a young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

The River Knows

Amanda Quick

The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa never saw it coming. . . .Of course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of d...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2008

Give Me Back My Legions! of Ancient R...

Harry Turtledove

Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

The Queen's Vow of Isabella of Castil...

C. W. Gortner

C.W. Gortner's gripping novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power, transforming from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

Dark Angels

Karleen Koen

An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II. By the ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

A Christmas Garland

Anne Perry

DIV"[Anne] Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat," declared IThe Wall Street Journal. Perry continues this magnificent tradition with IA Christmas Garland, a yuletide tale set in exotic India. This ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Hornblower and the 'Atropos

C. S. Forester

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment ...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

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Patrick O'Brian

In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to 'Blue at the Mizzen.' These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the t...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

Remembering: A Novel (Port William)

Wendell Berry

Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

White Rose, Black Forest

Eoin Dempsey

An Amazon Charts bestseller.In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter....

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2018

A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge)

Ken Follett

International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with the first two books of his Kingsbridge series, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2017

A Dangerous Fortune

Ken Follett

In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin Edward, dissolute heir to the Pilaster ban...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann

Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the ba...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2006

Dillinger

Jack Higgins

In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost―some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

The Daughters of Mars

Thomas Keneally

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

The Twelfth Enchantment

David Liss

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

Cleopatra's Daughter

Michelle Moran

From the author of the national bestseller Nefertiti comes the incredible story of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Antony's orphaned children, who were taken to Rome to be raised as hostages in the palace of their father's greatest rival.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

Golden Lion CD: A Novel of Heroes in ...

Wilbur Smith

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler: an epic adventure spanning land and sea. . . time and distance. . . courage, revenge, and everything in between.He saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth a...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

Golden Lion Low Price CD: A Novel of ...

Wilbur Smith

"The best historical novelist."—Stephen KingFor readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler: an epic adventure spanning land and sea. . . time and distance. . . courage, revenge, and everything in between.H...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2016

Habits of the House

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2013
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