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The Fortune Hunter: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin

Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2014

The Postmistress

Sarah Blake

Unabridged CDs, 9 CDs, 11 hours Read by TBA What would happen if someone did the unthinkable-and didn't deliver a letter? Filled with stunning parallels to today, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of tw...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Mammoth Cheese, The

Sheri Holman

Beautifully crafted and driven by warm, vibrant characters, The Mammoth Cheese follows the residents of rural Three Chimneys, Virginia, on their historic journey to re-create the making of the original Thomas Jefferson-era, 1,235-poun...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2003

The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Kore...

Jeff Shaara

The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

The Night Watch

Sarah Waters

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this novel tells the story of four Londoners: three women and a young man with a past, drawn...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2006

City of Women

David R. Gillham

Who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved?  t is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.br Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German sold...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2012

The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel

Lisa Wingate

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2020

Sacred Hearts

Sarah Dunant

The entertaining author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan delivers her third captivating audiobook set in Renaissance Italy. Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. Bu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

The Family

Mario Puzo

The author of The Godfather takes readers back four hundred years to a fifteenth-century Italy populated by corrupt popes and despotic families to introduce the first of the mafia families, Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and his c...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Lucky Us: A Novel

Amy Bloom

"My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us."So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called "a literary triumph&q...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2014

No Eye Can See (Kirkpatrick, Jane, Ki...

Jane Kirkpatrick

When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done.

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

Kiss Carlo CD

Adriana Trigiani

From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity—the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.It's 19...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

True Believers

Kurt Andersen

In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2012

The Malice of Fortune

Michael Ennis

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western cano...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

Colleen McCullough

Readers of Pride and Prejudice will remember that there were five Bennet sisters. Lizzy Bennet married Mr. Darcy, Jane Bennet married Mr. Bingley—but what became of the middle daughter, Mary? Now, twenty years on, Jane has a happy m...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

Secrets of Cavendon (Cavendon Hall)

Barbara Taylor Bradford

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, comes a striking, breathtaking audiobook saga featuring the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family, who have loyally served them for generations.It’s the summer o...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2017

At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of north...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

Sharpe's Escape: The Bussaco Campaign...

Bernard Cornwell

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Sha...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022

War Lord CD: A Novel (Saxon Tales)

Bernard Cornwell

The final installment in 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 Last Kingdom, the h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2020

A.D. 30: A Novel

Ted Dekker

A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine.A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart.The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all.Step back in time to the year of our L...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

For the King

Catherine Delors

From the author of the critically acclaimed Mistress of the Revolution comes a spellbinding historical thriller set in post-revolutionary Paris.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbri...

Ken Follett

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2023

The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich

August 1864: A court of inquiry convenes at the Union Army headquarters to investigate the Battle of the Crater, one of the worst disasters endured by a disaster-prone army. The eyes of the world are on it, and much is at stake: the m...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

Valley Forge

Newt Gingrich

In To Try Men's Souls, New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation, George Washington. Valley Forge picks up the nar...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

The Favoured Child (Wideacre)

Philippa Gregory

Second in the best-selling Wideacre Trilogy, a compulsive drama set in the 18th century. By Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in pov...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2018

Girls of Flight City: Inspired by Tru...

Lorraine Heath

Inspired by true events, a breathtaking WWII historical novel about the brave American women who trained the British Royal Air Force, by New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath. 1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2022

Heaven and Hell (North and South)

John Jakes

The searing conclusion to the North and South Trilogy brings the battle between the Mains and Hazards—and Confederate and Union armies—to a brilliantly satisfying end The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

Villa America: A Novel

Liza Klaussmann

A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2015

A Treacherous Paradise

Henning Mankell

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïvete by her...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1...

Francine Prose

[Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Rosalind Ashford, Geoffrey Cantor, Nicola Barber, Suzanne Toren, Maggi-Meg Reed]A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2014
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