Historical - General

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The Book of Madness and Cures

Regina O'Melveny

Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

Travels in the Scriptorium

Paul Auster

A man pieces together clues to his past-and the identity of his captors-in this fantastic, labyrinthine novelAn old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2007

Percival's Planet

Michael Byers

A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Medicus

Ruth Downie

A doctor for the Roman Empire in occupied Britain, Gaius Petrius Ruso faces a wide array of problems in the backwater frontier: foul living conditions, a lousy boss, financial problems, a divorce, an ungrateful slave-girl, and the mys...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell

Robin Maxwell's debut novel introduces Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth: one was queen for a thousand days, the other for more than forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. At the be...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a T...

Wilbur Smith

In this sweeping adventure full of danger, action, and intrigue, the master who has been the model for bestselling authors such as Clive Cussler and Bernard Cornwell returns to his longest-running series, taking fans back to the very ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

Tony's Wife Low Price CD: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful si...

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Published: Nov 2019

Master of His Fate (The House of Falc...

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first audiobook in a stunning new historical saga.Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

A Wilder Rose

Susan Wittig Albert

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2015

In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

Isabel Allende

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2017

The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the bo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2010

The Neruda Case

Roberto Ampuero

Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, listeners are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2012

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Handmaid's TaleSoon to be a Netflix Original series, Alias Grace takes listeners into the life of one of the most notorious women of the 19th century. It's 1843, and Grace ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

Land of Painted Caves, The (Earth's C...

Jean M. Auel

Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and, above all, courage.As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their inf...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2016

My Lady Notorious

Jo Beverley

Desperate to help her widowed sister and baby escape a deadly pursuer, Lady Chastity Ware dresses as a highwayman and captures the first coach to travel down the road. Coming face-to-face with its occupant, the arrogant aristocrat Cyn...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2014

HHhH

Laurent Binet

HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Wettest County in the World Based...

Matt Bondurant

Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World W...

Rhys Bowen

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2017

The Cavendon Luck (Cavendon Hall)

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries.It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Ce...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2016

The Sisterhood

Helen Bryan

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted nineteen-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis — and soon finds herself on an unexpected journey into the past. The subject of her st...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2013

A Dark and Lonely Place

Edna Buchanan

A Dark and Lonely Place poses the question: can we change our destiny, or must our lives always end the same way? In Miami, Police Detective Sgt. John Ashley hunts a woman linked to a murdered millionaire and finds she is the girl ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

The Paris Library: A Novel

Janet Skeslien Charles

Instant New York Times bestseller USA TODAY and Washington Postbestseller #1 LibraryReads Pick Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Library Journal and Goodreads ​​​​​Based on the true...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2020

Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

Jennifer Chiaverini

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense. In May 1875, Elizabeth To...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2020

Resistance Women

Jennifer Chiaverini

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American--Mildred Fish H...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2019

The Christmas Boutique: An Elm Creek ...

Jennifer Chiaverini

Twenty years after the publication of The Quilter's Apprentice, the novel that launched the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with another delightful chapter featuring Maste...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2019

Battle Flag (The Starbuck Chronicles)...

Bernard Cornwell

From New York Timesbestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the third installment in The Starbuck Chronicles. The epic battle for control of the Confederate capital continues through the hot summer of 1862. It’s a battle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022

Copperhead (The Starbuck Chronicles)

Bernard Cornwell

Nate, a Yankee-turned-Confederate, finds his loyalties tested at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, 1862 It is the summer of 1862 and the Northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Bloodied but victorious at ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022

Fools and Mortals CD: A Novel

Bernard Cornwell

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shak...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2018

Fools and Mortals Low Price CD: A Nov...

Bernard Cornwell

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shak...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2019

Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles)

Bernard Cornwell

A riveting and compelling account of Nate's initial Civil War experience—its battles, romances and divided loyalties When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022
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