Historical - General

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Pearl Harbor

Newt Gingrich

After their New York Times bestselling series on the American Civil War, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen now turn to the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and examine how different decisions might have pr...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

The Glorious Cause

Jeff Shaara

Though the events depicted here should be extraordinarily rousing..., Shaara manages to render almost all of them mundane. He has an excellent grasp of the military and political significance of what's going on, but his flat tone and ...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2002

The Warrior's Path

Tex Burns

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In The Warrior's Path L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two broth...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2005

The Light in the Ruins

Chris Bohjalian

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany. 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

Days of Infamy

Newt Gingrich

Pearl Harbor is in utter chaos after the unexpected third strike by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces, ordered into the attack by Admiral Yamamoto. A victory has been achieved, but is it total victory? Yamamoto is horrified to discov...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.From the Hardcover edition.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Queen Lucia (Mapp and Lucia)

E. F. Benson

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formal...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Cavendon Women

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929.  ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2015

The Miniaturist: A Novel

Jessie Burton

[Read by Davina Porter] ''There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . '' On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Jo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2014

Sword of Kings CD: A Novel (Saxon Tal...

Bernard Cornwell

The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for the hit Netflix series The...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2019

The Leopard (Modern fiction)

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, The Leopard chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitt...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

Circe

Madeline Miller

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2018

Falling Angel

Tracy Chevalier

In a novel of manners and social divisions set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England, two girls from different classes become friends, and their families' lives become intertwined in the process. By the author of Girl Wi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2001

Sword Song (The Saxon Chronicles, Boo...

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord'warrior by instinct, Viking by nature'has fina...

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Published: Jan 2008

Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Diana Gabaldon

A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of Devils brings three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hel...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

Crystal Gardens

Amanda Quick

Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the groun...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2012

The Technologists

Matthew Pearl

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.  The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Bo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Fan-Tan

Marlon Brando

This swashbuckling adventure was the brainchild of the late Marlon Brando, who came up with the storyline in 1979. A collaboration with director Donald Cammell, who wrote a screenplay and later a novel based on the material, FAN-TAN i...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2005

Sea Glass

Anita/ Sedgwick Shreve

From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, S...


Published: Apr 2002

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Richard Armitage

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the pr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2018

On Agate Hill

Lee Smith

A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dol...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

A Soldier of the Great War

Mark Helprin

Available for the first time on audio, a beautiful, heart-rending tale of love, loss, and honor from the bestselling author of Winter's Tale! On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

Abundance of Marie Antoinette

Sena Jeter Naslund

Published the same month as the U.S. release of Sofia Coppola's film MARIE-ANTOINETTE, Sena Jeter Naslund's novel takes a similarly forgiving angle on the young French queen who became the most famous guillotine victim of the French R...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

The bestselling author of Victorian mysteries makes an ambitious leap into historical fiction, setting her first stand-alone novel in the Ottoman Empire, and telling the story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Echoes

Danielle Steel

On the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harro...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2004

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler

Picture a late-May morning in 1918, a time when Montgomery wore her prettiest spring dress and finest floral perfume—same as I would wear that evening…Thus begins the story of beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre on...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

The bestselling author of Victorian mysteries makes an ambitious leap into historical fiction, setting her first stand-alone novel in the Ottoman Empire, and telling the story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eu...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2010

This Rock

Robert Morgan

In the Appalachian Mountains of the 1920s, the Powell brothers struggle to figure out their place in the world and their relationship with each other, as Moody drifts into alcohol and gambling, while Muir's path changes their family f...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Terra Incognita of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie

In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Times bestselling debut, beloved army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain, where he runs into murder and the ghosts of his vexi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2008
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