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Title: All the Light There Was

Author: Nancy Kricorian

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian familys struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s - a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance.

On the day the Nazis march down the rue de Belleville, 14-year-old Maral Pegorian is living with her family in Paris; like many other Armenians who survived the genocide in their homeland, they have come to Paris to build a new life. The adults immediately set about gathering food and provisions, bracing for the deprivation they know all too well. But the children - Maral, her brother Missak, and their close friend Zaven - are spurred to action of another sort, finding secret and not-so-secret ways to resist their oppressors. Only when Zaven flees with his brother Barkev to avoid conscription does Maral realize that the Occupation is not simply a temporary outrage to be endured. After many fraught months, just one brother returns, changing the contours of Marals world completely.

Like Tatiana de Rosnays Sarahs Key and Jenna Blums Those Who Save Us, All the Light There Was is an unforgettable portrait of lives caught in the crosswinds of history.

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Title: Wolfhound Century

Author: Peter Higgins

Narrator: Neil Dickson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.

A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.

Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

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Title: Gad's Hall

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-13

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For the Spender family, the ancient, beautifully kept house had seemed a godsend, an incredible bargain, almost a gift from its owner - a kindly man who merely wanted someone to protect the family homestead, to make Gads come alive again. And it did. Soon a strong-willed, sensible woman would be overtaken by irrational feelings she could not control, all because of the unspeakable secret kept by the women who had lived at Gads Hall more than a century ago.

Rich in historical detail, suspense and romance, Gads Hall subtly entices us into the realm of the supernatural with the tale of a house forever doomed by a young girls powerful obsession.

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Title: The Big It

Subtitle: And Other Stories

Author: A. B. Guthrie

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In The Big It, Guthrie presents 13 imaginative and at times hilarious short stories about life on the frontier. Resilient and memorable, Guthrie's characters bring to life the pioneer spirit and the untamed west. Perhaps best known for his remarkable and award-winning novels, The Way West and The Big Sky, Guthrie is equally adept at the short stories.

Dreamscape is happy to present a brand new recording of these unforgettable stories by the master of the western genre, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

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Title: Southern Seahawk

Author: Randall Peffer

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Southern Seahawk, the first novel in the Seahawk Trilogy, grows from the true story of Commander Rafael Semmes' rise to infamy, becoming the Union's Public Enemy Number One. In June, 1861, Semmes' Confederate cruiser Sumter makes a daring escape through the Federal Blockade of the Mississippi. So begins the commander's career as the Southern Seahawk. With a hand-picked crew of Southern officers and mercenary seamen, Semmes seizes eight enemy ships in four days, a record never surpassed by any other captain of a warship.

By the time the cruises of the Sumter and her successor Alabama end, Semmes will have taken and burned more than 80 prizes, making him the most successful maritime predator in history. For two and a half years Semmes eludes a pack of pursuers and almost single-handedly drives marine insurance rates so high in the North, that many Yankee ships refuse to sail until he is caught. Back in Washington, Semmes' predations fuel feuds within the Lincoln cabinet and incite the spy games of historical figures like courtesans Rose Greenhow, Betty Duval, detective Allan Pinkerton and the commander s mistress.

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Título: El estrellero de San Juan de la Peña

Autor: Ángeles De Irisarri

Narrador: Maria Luisa Solá

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 42 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-28-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

En el monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, ubicado en un sobrecogedor paisaje del Pirineo Aragonés (España), un fraile espera la llegada de un cometa: el Halley (documentado en el año 1066). Fray Aimerico para preservarse de las alimañas que pueblan el lugar, y siempre acompañado de su perro, se construye en lo alto de un árbol enorme un observatorio astronómico. Por aquel solitario paraje aparecen personajes singulares y entrañables que dirimen cuestiones de filosofía, matemáticas, astrología, astronomía, religión y magia, en un afán de clarificar la ciencia de la época y de separar lo empírico de lo demostrativo. La audición de esta novela es una aventura desde la primera línea hasta el final, pues desarrolla una trama apasionante con la ambientación y costumbres propias de la Alta Edad Media. Para la realización de este singular audiolibro se han unido la armoniosa voz de M Luisa Solá (dobladora de actrices como Kim Basinger, Susan Sarandon...) y la buena pluma de Ángeles de Irisarri.

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Title: Freud's Sister

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Goce Smilevski, Christina E. Kramer (translator)

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-12

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp?

The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund.

Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, while their brother lives out his last days in London.

Based on a true story, this searing novel gives haunting voice to Freud's sister Adolfina - "the sweetest and best of my sisters" - a gifted, sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother and never married. A witness to her brother's genius and to the cultural and artistic splendor of Vienna in the early 20th century, she aspired to a life few women of her time could attain.

From Adolfina's closeness with her brother in childhood, to her love for a fellow student, to her time with Gustav Klimt's sister in a Vienna psychiatric hospital, to her dream of one day living in Venice and having a family, Freud's Sister imagines with astonishing insight and deep feeling the life of a woman lost to the shadows of history.

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Title: Birdy

Author: William Wharton

Narrator: Jot Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of Americas most revered authors of the 20th Century.

Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight.Birdys passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly.

A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors there treat his friend, who he finds squatting on the floor of his cell and acting like a bird.

This haunting and brilliant novel has electrified readers the world over. It has truly become a modern classic.In 1984, Birdy was turned into an award-winning movie directed by Alan Parker and starring Nicholas Cage and Matthew Modine.

Critic Reviews:

Wonderful DORIS LESSINGWill become a classic PATRICK WHITEMost memorable Wharton is exceptionally gifted JOHN FOWLESIt is as good as Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and perhaps it is better GUARDIAN

"Will become a classic." (PATRICK WHITE)

"Most memorable Wharton is exceptionally gifted." (JOHN FOWLES)

"It is as good as Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and perhaps it is better." (THE GUARDIAN)

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Title: Her Majesty's Yankee

Subtitle: John Whyte Series, Book 1

Author: Tom Nichols

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-12

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This is the prequel to Pinkerton's Gold, and is the first book in the series featuring the American West adventures of John Whyte, an ex-officer from the British Army.

John arrives in America just in time for the Civil War and joins the Union side working directly for Abe Lincoln. His first assignment is with Alan Pinkerton who is trying to breakup a Confederate spy ring in the north. Lincoln is so impressed with John that he sends him out to work with General Grant and report to Lincoln whether the bad press Grant has been getting as a drunk and a butcher is justified.

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Title: Little Century

Author: Anna Keesey

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Little Century is a charged and eloquentnovel about a young woman caught in the midst of the range wars in the American West at the turn of the century.

Orphaned after the death of her mother, 18-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, shes met by a sunburnt, laconic cattle wrangler: her distant cousin, FerrisPickett. Within days, Esther is perjuring herself at the county clerks office, swearing that she is21 and ready for the rigors of homesteading. Pick leads her to a tiny cabin that shows daylight at the chinks, and Esther begins her new life on the small lake called Half-a-Mind. If she can hold out for five years, the land will join Picks already impressive spread.

Land - theres a lot of it wide-open in Century but, somehow, not enough. Esther has arrived in the middle of a range war; its cattle against sheep, and waters at a premium. Small incidents of violence swiftly escalate; before long, blood spills on the dry ground, and the railroad starts to think twice about laying tracks through Century. No railroad means no town, something Pick and his men will go to any lengths to prevent.

Meanwhile, Esther finds her sympathies divided between her cousin and a sheepherder named Ben Cruff, a sworn enemy of the cattle ranchers. As her passion for Ben and her land grows, she begins to see how at odds these things are with her cousins own interests. She cant be loyal to both; at some point shell have to make a terrible choice.

Little Centurymaps our countrys cutthroat legacy of dispossession and greed; it also celebrates the ecstatic visions of what America could become. Through Esthers story, which veers between triumph and heartbreak, we see the American West as it was being forged. In the tradition of classics likeMy ÁntoniaandThere Will Be Blood,Little Centuryis a resonant and moving debut novel by a gifted writer.

Anna Keesey is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and teaches English and creative writing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

Critic Reviews:

In this novel of stunning beauty, Anna Keesey gives us the American West at the turn of the century and a cast of unforgettable characters who will risk anything to tame it. Oregons hardscrabble frontier comes utterly alive for us, and in prose so lovely, spot-on, and accomplished, I found myself dog-earing nearly every page. An incredible debut - and a writer to watch. (Paula McLain,New York Timesbest-selling author ofThe Paris Wife)

Here is a fine novel, written with grace, about the settling of Oregon and the evening redness in the West.In the desert town of Century, haunted by Indian blood and barren to the core, the cattlemen hate the shepherds and the shepherds hate the cattlemen. But as the community is about to consume itself with greed and vengeance, a young orphan from Chicago shows up with a moral clarity that outstrips her age, to remind us that character matters and that justice is pursuant to conscience.Little Centuryis a frontier saga, a love story, and an epic of many small pleasures.