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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

Second Sight: An Arcane Society Novel...

Amanda Quick

A killer stalks two psychics posing as husband and wife in this suspenseful paranormal romance set in the Victorian era. Lonely spinster photographer Venetia Milton decides to seduce her employer, Gabriel Jones, who has hired her to t...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2006

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Carolly Erickson

The author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Anotinette offers a fictional portrait of the sixth wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr, following this alluring, witty, and resourceful woman from the intrigues and perils of Henry's court to he...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig continues the exciting series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2008

Jackdaws

Ken Follett

With the Allies preparing for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, Felicity "Flick" Clariet, an agent in the ranks of the British Special Operations Executive, is given the job of destroying German lines of communications, ...

Abridged CD
Published: Dec 2001

Captain Alatriste

Arturo Perez-Reverte

In a first installment of a new series of historical novels by the author of The Queen of the South, wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexp...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

Fortune's Rocks

Anita Shreve

[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred year...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 1999

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

Young Gustine is a dress lodger, a prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. By day a potter's assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, Gustine works hard to support h...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2001

Grant Comes East

Newt Gingrich

[A]n exciting alternative history of the Civil War....Building on their strong first volume, Gingrich and Forstchen craft an original, dramatic and historically plausible 'what if?' story. Character depictions--of Lincoln, Grant and L...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2004

The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham

First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

A Thread of Grace

Mary Doria Russell

In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling ...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2005

To Try Men's Souls of George Washingt...

Newt Gingrich

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to pl...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

The Crown (Joanna Stafford Series, Bo...

Nancy Bilyeau

In this debut historical thriller, an aristocratic young nun must find a legendary crown in order to save her father's life and preserve all she holds dear. When novitiate nun Joanna Stafford learns her rebel cousin is condemned b...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 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 CD
Published: Oct 2005

A Separate Country

Robert Hicks

Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Ro...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

Spectacle of Corruption, A

David Liss

Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election. By the aut...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2004

Resurrection

Tucker Malarkey

A tale inspired by the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels in 1940s Egypt finds Gemma Bastian, the daughter of a renowned late archaeologist, raising troubling questions about her father's death, which occurred during his attempt to reco...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

The Book of Unholy Mischief

Elle Newmark

In a world of violence and intrigue, who guards the truth?It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors of an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist's dream, with recipes f...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2008

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 CD
Published: Apr 2012

New York: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordin...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

An endearing classic of childhood fancies and memories of an idyllic Midwestern summer from America's most beloved storyteller.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2019

The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

[Read by Jennifer Wydra and Kyla Garcia] A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.Sixtee...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2017

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & ...

Jane Kamensky

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce.

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2008

A Christmas Hope: A Novel

Anne Perry

[Read by Simon Prebble] Anne Perry's ''vastly entertaining'' (Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger) holiday novels are ''as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding'' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable, the grippin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2013

The Egyptologist

Arthur Phillips

This darkly comic labyrinth of a novel opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, before winding its way from the slums of 1900s Australia to the ballrooms of 1920s Boston, by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2004

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Gail Tsukiyama

Japan, 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms in Tokyo, two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

The Dressmaker

Kate Alcott

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012
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