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Title: The Sand Castle

Author: Rita Mae Brown

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-08

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nickel delights in tormenting her cousin, but, as the group lounges on the beach and begins work on a magnificent sand castle, the sisters try to coax him out of his shell by telling stories about their own childhood trips to the shore.

However, Nickel's taunting of Leroy escalates, and the family history between her mother and aunt rises to the surface. And then a crab bites Leroy, and they must all come together. Only years later can Nickel see that day for what it truly was: a life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it.

Critic Reviews:

"[A] sad, funny, always moving snapshot of a sort of love letter in the sand." (Booklist)

"Brown creates palpable tension throughout, largely with tightly constructed dialogue." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Quo Vadis

Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Narrator: Ken Eaken

Format: Abridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-08

Publisher: Listener's Digest Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Quo Vadis is a monumental saga of love and courage. Set during the time of Nero and the fall of the Roman Empire, this epic story reveals both the agony and the glory of the struggling new movement called Christianity.

©2007 Listener's Digest Inc; (P)2007 Listener's Digest Inc

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Title: The Bride of the Wilderness

Author: Charles McCarry

Narrator: Pam Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Young, high-spirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she has grown up in is riddled with danger and brutality. When a sinister stranger traps her family into debt in order to advance on Fanny, she is forced to take refuge in France, where she meets a young French soldier, Philippe de Saint-Christophe.

Their paths will cross again in the New World, where the war between the English and the French is fought with the help of savage Indians on both sides. Together, Fanny and Philippe will carve out a fierce, adventurous life in the vigorous, untamed wilderness.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a remarkable narrative, written in McCarry's honed, imaginative style and packed with historical detail presented not as background but as lived experience....Adroitly depicting passion, brutality, cultures in conflict and New World natural beauty, this novel is as engrossing as it is unusual." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Charlotte

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Julia Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-08

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

She fled deep into the countryside and there taught at a school run by the untrusting and untrustworthy Mrs Armitage, who was prepared to keep quiet about Charlotte's past - but only up to a point. When the events come to be recreated, some questions naturally arise. Had Charlotte been responsible for the death of the little pupil she loved? And has that crime been repeated? In darker moments, even Charlotte herself cannot be sure.

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Title: The Nature of Monsters

Author: Clare Clark

Narrator: Julia Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-07

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 16, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There, she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what remains of her reputation.

©2007 Clare Clark; (P)2007 W F Howes Ltd.

Critic Reviews:

"A sublime evocation of the 18th century...there was no way I was ever going to put this down." (Telegraph)

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Title: Follow the Wind

Subtitle: Spanish Bit Saga, Book 2

Author: Don Coldsmith

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-07

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Don Pedro Garcia believes the drunken Captain Sanchez' claim that the Don's only son is still alive and living among the savages in New Spain's uncharted wilderness.

©Don Coldsmith; (P)2001 Books in Motion

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Title: Sharpe's Fury

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Paul McGann

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal, who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city.

There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy. Many Spaniards doubt Britain's motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French. And one of them, a baleful priest, secures a powerful weapon to break the British alliance. He will use a beautiful whore and the letters she received from a wealthy man in a blackmail attempt. Sharpe must defeat him in a sinister war of knife and treachery in the dark alleys of the city.

The alliance will only survive if the French siege can be lifted. An allied army marches from the city to take on the more powerful French and, once again, a brilliant piece of soldiering turns to disaster, this time because the Spanish refuse to fight. A small British force is trapped by a French army, and the only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on a hill beside the sea, refuse to admit defeat. And there, in the sweltering horror of Barossa, Sharpe finds Colonel Vandal again.

Sharpe's Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa, the battle which saw the British capture the first French eagle of the Napoleonic Wars.

Critic Reviews:

"Once again, Cornwell is right on target, providing an irresistible combination of rousing military history, penetrating character analysis, and suspenseful martial intrigue." (Booklist)

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Title: The Lost Diary of Don Juan

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Douglas Carlton Abrams

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-07

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is after knowing countless women that he is convinced by the Marquis to keep a diary, and it is here within its pages that Don Juan reveals his greatest adventures and the Arts of Passion he mastered. But what finally compels him to confess everything and risk losing his life, livelihood, and honor is the most perilous adventure of all: the irresistible fall into the madness of love with the only woman who could ever make him forget all others.

Critic Reviews:

"The famously insatiable lover is brought brilliantly to life in this lively, suspenseful debut novel." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Honor & Glory

Subtitle: A Civil War Novel

Author: Kim Murphy

Narrator: Dianna Dorman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for the Confederacy, and she falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Meanwhile, two opposing armies, devastated by the clash at Fredericksburg, wait for the spring campaign on the banks of the Rappahannock River. As the two sisters are swept up in the maelstrom, they must rely on their hearts and their own resources to navigate treacherous paths to honor and glory.

Critic Reviews:

"[A] gripping tale. Four stars." (Romantic Times)

"A momentous, sweeping, and emotional novel." (Midwest Book Review)

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Title: The Lightning Keeper

Author: Starling Lawrence

Narrator: Terence Aselford

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-06

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York, recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that have claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them.

Toma is eventually drawn inside the industrial empire of General Electric, his machine an essential cog in its grand scheme to provide electricity to the entire country. His invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but Toma is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress.

Deeply evocative and utterly engrossing, The Lightning Keeper is a rich tapestry of technology, romance, and war, an unforgettable and distinctly American saga that establishes Starling Lawrence as one of the most talented writers at work today.

Critic Reviews:

"Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion." (Publishers Weekly)

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