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Title: Kathleen's Vision

Subtitle: Orphan Train Riders

Author: LInda Baten Johnson

Narrator: Amy Pastoor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-16

Publisher: Lovely Christian Romance Press

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When the furniture removers empty the family tenement as payment for back rent, 10-year-old Kathleen Flannigan fears that her family will soon be homeless and hungry.

Kathleen vows to save her family from ruin, even though her plan means personal sacrifice. Will the orphan train going to Michigan be the answer to Kathleen's vision of a better life for herself and her family?

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Title: First Family

Author: Alice Langholt

Narrator: Tim Halligan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-16

Publisher: Alice Langholt

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

If you're a fan who enjoyed The Red Tent, you would most certainly enjoy this new book of biblical fiction, First Family. You may have heard the story of Adam and Eve. But, the biblical account leaves many questions unanswered. How did Eve entice Adam to eat that fateful fruit? What did God think about their disobedience? How did they figure out how to survive outside the garden? What did Eve think about being pregnant? What were Cain and Abel like as kids, and how did they get along with their parents? Why did Abel and Cain decide to make an offering to God, and what were God's reasons for rejecting Cain's? What happened when Cain killed Abel, and what was it like for Adam and Eve to discover what had happened?

First Family is a modern language journey through the story of Adam and Eve, told by the characters themselves, as they fill in the gaps in the story with breathtakingly real first person descriptions of growth, discoveries, angst, joy, determination, and heart. First Family is today's voice for the story behind the familiar story of Adam and Eve. Themes of love, loss, grief, and faith will resonate with every listener.

Award-winning author Alice Langholt brings us her first work of fiction, and it's unforgettable.

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Title: Arcadian Nights

Subtitle: The Greek Myths Reimagined

Author: John Spurling

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The vibrant retelling of the central Greek myths by acclaimed novelist John Spurling, author of The Ten Thousand Things, winner of the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

The classical Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every aspect of our modern Western civilization. Our logic and science, our philosophy, politics, literature, architecture, and art are all indebted to the ancient inhabitants of the small mountainous Mediterranean country. And the powerful myths of the Greeks, refined by Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and the great Greek dramatists, still resonate at the core of our culture.

Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including tales of the doomed house of Atreus (notably Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, murdered by his wife in his palace bathroom) and of the god Apollo; the goddess Athene; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda.

In this vibrant, gripping, and often grisly retelling of the Greek myths, stories of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are made new again for our time with wit and relish by a gifted author. Spurling has added scene, dialogue, and context while always staying true to the spirit of the original myth.

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Title: The High Mountains of Portugal

Author: Yann Martel

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

With this highly anticipated new audiobook, the author of the best-selling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerising story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that touch the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century.

We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes.

Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into Tomás' quest. Then, 50 years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.

Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

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Title: Eliza (Niepokorne 1)

Author: Agnieszka Wojdowicz

Narrator: Monika Dabrowska-Jarosz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Polish.

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Title: Louisa the Poisoner

Author: Tanith Lee

Narrator: Janine Haynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-16

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Raised in a swamp by a mad witch, poor Louisa grew up with one goal in mind: to marry a wealthy man, then inherit his lands and money by whatever means it takes. And Louisa may well succeed, for she is a stunning beauty with the manners of an angel. At last she sets off to make her fortune...and with the help of her vial of undetectable poison, she soon finds her first victim. A dazzlingly dark fantasy, as only Tanith Lee could write it!

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Title: Reunion: Lee, Lincoln & the American Reunification Treaty

Author: Michael J. Metroke

Narrator: Joseph B. Kearns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-16

Publisher: Michael J. Metroke

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Three years have passed since General Robert E. Lee routed the Union army at Gettysburg and caused the Lincoln government to flee Washington, D.C. Now, as president of the Confederacy, Lee realizes the hollowness of his victory as he watches the South he loved and defended slowly crumble before his eyes. Lee must reach out to the only man he believes can help him save the South - the disgraced and out-of-office President Abraham Lincoln. Amidst intense opposition, the two men secretly devise a plan that, if successful, could reunite the country once again.

Reunion is an intricate and thoroughly researched work of alternate history that examines the question: What if the South won the Civil War? Through engaging prose and an extensive cast of compelling characters, Metroke explores this question with the grace and sensibility of a seasoned novelist, and with the diligence and precision of a shrewd historian. The result is a book that is deeply satisfying from both a literary and historical perspective. Reunion is simultaneously entertaining and informative, human and political, and above all, historical and relevant. It is a must-listen for anyone who desires to understand the American politics of the past and the present.

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Title: The Maid from Moab

Subtitle: A Novella

Author: Summer Lee

Narrator: Sarah Elizabeth Gerstenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-27-16

Publisher: Lion Reflector Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Thousands of years ago, Elimelech, his wife, Naomi, and their two sons flee Bethlehem's famine when they move to Moab. When Elimelech dies, Naomi encourages her sons to marry local women. Unexpectedly, her sons die, too. Now, Naomi and her childless daughters-in-law must fend for themselves.

Quickly becoming destitute, Naomi announces her return to Bethlehem - she tells the daughters-in-law to return to their own families and seek new husbands. Orpah leaves. However, Ruth won't forsake Naomi. Wherever Naomi goes, Ruth will go, too.

While gleaning grain, Ruth catches the eye of Boaz, a wealthy landowner. When Naomi realizes who he is, she figures out a way that Ruth may be able to marry him. However, there's a serious obstacle to the couple's future - one that could prove to be their undoing.

As Ruth falls in love with Boaz, she seeks God's will, even as her woman's heart cries out for fulfillment. She also worries about what will become of her beloved mother-in-law.

Will Ruth be allowed to marry the man she loves and still keep Naomi by her side?

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Title: Standing Stones

Author: Beth Camp

Narrator: Darryl Hughes Kurylo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-16

Publisher: Beth Camp

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 19th-century northern Scotland, Mac McDonnell's traditional way of life is challenged when Lord Gordon lays claim to their island home and threatens to replace farmers and fishermen with sheep. Mac leads a protest, but when evictions turn violent, Mac must decide what he is willing to risk - to protect his family, his sweetheart, Deidre, and his livelihood. Set during the time of the Clearances, Standing Stones won an award for historical fiction and was dubbed "a very promising work" by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.

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Title: Forgotten Tales of China

Author: Lisa April Smith

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For the first time, author Lisa April Smith merges her proven skill at delivering unforgettable characters and pause-resisting suspense with historic fiction.

Based on exhaustive research and set in the Chinese cradle of civilization, the Yellow River basin, Forgotten Tales of China is a sweeping saga of survival, sacrifice, indomitable perseverance, bravery, and betrayal. Starting 40,000 years ago with cave dwellers who communicated almost solely through sign language, this epic novel transports listeners through the millennium, culminating in China's Bronze Age, 1,600 BC, during the reign of a mad degenerate Xia king.

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