Historical - General

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What Is Left the Daughter

Howard Norman

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books -- The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L -- in this erotically charged and mo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

No Less Than Victory of WWII

Jeff Shaara

No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Alli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

Long Live the King

Fay Weldon

From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs—the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century. As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American histor...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2019

Augustus

John Williams

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin...

Patrick O'Brian

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has orders of ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

The House Girl Low Price CD

Tara Conklin

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Last King of Scotland

Giles Foden

No, we're not talking Bonnie Prince Charlie here. The title character of Giles Foden's debut novel, The Last King of Scotland, is none other than Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda. Told from the viewpoint of Nicholas Garrigan, ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2006

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

Lilac Girls: A Novel

Martha Hall Kelly

Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands ful...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2016

Ghostwalk

Rebecca Stott

A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy–the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the s...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

Solomon's Angels 5-CD

Doreen Virtue

King Solomon knew how to harness universal energies to build his temple, tap into wisdom, and enjoy all of life's riches. The only thing he was missing was true love. Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, was young and filled with exuberant cur...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2008

The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell

Loraine Despres

Belle Cantrell felt guilty about killing her husband and she hated that. Feeling guilty, that is. A lady shouldn't do something she's going to feel guilty about later was a rule Belle kept firmly in mind. Welcome to the world of ...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Lady of the Butterflies

Fiona Mountain

Set in Somerset and London during the turbulent time of the Restoration, Lady of the Butterflies is a dramatic tale of passion, prejudice, and death by poison, of riot and rebellion, science and superstition, madness and metamorphosis...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2010

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

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

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...

Unabridged CD
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

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...

Unabridged CD
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
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