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Title: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke

Series: #3 of Las Léonas

Author: Adriana Herrera

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2025

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

He's not like other dukes… Paris, 1889 Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women’s clinic exposes her to certain dangers, but help arrives in the unexpected form of the infuriating Duke of Annan. Begrudgingly, Aurora accepts his protection, then promptly finds herself in his bed.    New to his role as a duke, Apollo César Sinclair Robles struggles to embrace his position. With half of society waiting for him to misstep and the other half looking to discredit him, Apollo never imagined that his enthralling bedmate would become his most trusted adviser. Soon, he realizes the rebellious doctor could be the perfect duchess for him. But Aurora won’t give up her independence, and her secrets make her unsuitable for the aristocracy. When dangerous figures from their pasts return to threaten them, Apollo whisks Aurora away to the French Riviera. Far from the reproachful eye of Parisian society, can Apollo convince Aurora that their bond is stronger than the forces keeping them apart?     Can't get enough of the Las Leonas? - Book 1: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris - Book 2: An Island Princess Starts a Scandal - Book 3: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke

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Title: Lords of the White Castle

Series: #2 of FitzWarin

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 5 minutes

Release date: January 28, 2025

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A violent quarrel with the future King John destroys the young Fulke FitzWarin’s greatest ambition: to become Lord of the White Castle. Instead of accepting his fate, Fulke rebels. But the danger pursuing Fulke reaches new heights as he begins a passionate love affair with Maude Walter—the wealthy widow chosen by John himself. Negotiating a maze of deceit, treachery and shifting alliances, Fulke’s route to success is fraught. And when the turmoil of the Magna Carta rebellion combines with a shocking tragedy, everything Fulke has fought for is thrown into the path of destruction.

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Title: Those Fatal Flowers: A Novel

Author: Shannon Ives

Narrator: E A Castillo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Release date: January 21, 2025

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage—a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes. Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the handmaidens charged with protecting Proserpina when she was kidnapped, Thelia and her sisters are banished to the island of Scopuli and cursed to live as sirens—winged half-woman, half-bird creatures. In luring sailors to their deaths with an irresistible song, the sisters hope to gain favor from the gods who could free them. But then ships stop coming, and Thelia fears a fate worse than the Underworld. Just as time begins to run out, a voice emerges, Proserpina’s voice, and what she asks of Thelia will spark a dangerous quest for their freedom. Now, Roanoke. Thelia can’t bear to reflect on her last moments in Scopuli. After weeks drifting at sea alone, Thelia’s renewed human body—a result of her last devastating sacrifice on Scopuli—is close to death. Luckily, an unfamiliar island appears on the horizon: Roanoke. Posing as a princess arriving on a sailboat filled with riches, Thelia infiltrates the small English colony. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that this place is dangerous, especially for women. As she grows closer to a beautiful settler who mysteriously resembles her former love, Thelia formulates a plan to save her sisters and enact revenge on the violent men she’s come to despise. But is she willing to go back to Scopuli and face the consequences of her past decisions? And will Proserpina forgive her for all that she’s done? Told in alternating timelines, Those Fatal Flowers is a powerful, passionate, and wildly cathartic love letter to femininity and the monstrous power within us all.

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Title: Clay Walls

Author: Kim Ronyoung

Narrator: Ami Park, Greg Chun, Sue Jean Kim

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Release date: December 10, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown A Penguin Classic Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty. Kim explores the tensions within a family of immigrants and new Americans and brings to the forefront the themes of Korean immigration, U.S. racism, generational trauma, and the early decades of Los Angeles’s Koreatown from a Korean American woman’s point of view. Through three sections representing the perspectives of mother, father, and daughter, what resonates the most is the voice of a woman and her self-determination, through national identity, marriage, and motherhood. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains select Suggestions for Further Exploration from the book.

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Title: Lady of the English

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Release date: December 10, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes a gripping, never-before-told, medieval battle of the sexes that sheds light on one of medieval royalty's most fascinating women?Queen Matilda. 1135, England: Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival, and cousin, Stephen do not know the iron will that drives her. She will win her inheritance against all odds, and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, is now married to a warrior who is fighting to keep Matilda off the throne. But Adeliza knows that Britain's crown belongs to a woman this time. Both women will stand and fight for what they know is right for England's royalty. But for Matilda, pride comes before a fall. And for Adeliza, even the deepest love is no proof against fate. Written with great historical accuracy, Lady of the English is a captivating novel of Medieval England. Fans of Philippa Gregory, Susanna Kearsley, Hilary Mantel, and Diana Gabaldon will be spellbound by this vividly detailed look into medieval history. 'Everyone who has raved about Elizabeth Chadwick as an author of historical novels is right.'—Devourer of Books

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Title: Ruler of Kings

Series: #5 of Second Son

Author: Ron C. Nieto

Narrator: Dan Calley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The epic finale of The Second Son series. March along Oren Trevaine and unveil his destiny.

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Title: Shadows and Strongholds

Series: #1 of FitzWarin

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Release date: November 27, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin’s youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide. When the menace to Ludlow intensifies, Fulke must confront the future head on or fail on all counts, all the while desperate to know if Hawise stands with or against him.

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Title: Blood Bounty of the Mountain Man

Series: #52 of Mountain Man

Author: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone present Book 52 in the Mountain Man series.

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Title: The Black Wood Women

Author: Michael Stewart

Narrator: Laoise Sweeney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

We know the truths men have forgotten… ‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls #039;Grim and glorious#039; Daily Mail #039;Will leave you breathless’ Sunday Post *** The last wolf in England hunts for prey. Exhausted, hungry and alone, she fears for the litter of pups she carries, and the men who seek to wipe her out. Yorkshire, 1649. Since they fled Ireland, Caragh and her family have hidden their true identities to enable them to start a new life in England. But when Caragh finds her parents brutally murdered by a Protestant determined to rid the area of Catholics, she must flee again. Travelling east, she comes to a forest, where she meets a coven of women who wear their hair loose and refuse to follow men’s rules. Having found acceptance at last, Caragh is unaware that a different kind of persecution stalks the black wood women, and their days in the forest are numbered.

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Title: Christmas with the Queen: A Novel

Author: Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Narrator: Gary Furlong, Esther Wane, Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

’Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and Three Words for Goodbye. December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a postwar Britain hungry for change.  As preparations begin for the royal Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, old friends—Jack Devereux and Olive Carter—are unexpectedly reunited by the occasion. Olive, a single mother and aspiring reporter at the BBC, leaps at the opportunity to cover the holiday celebration, but even a chance encounter with the queen doesn’t go as planned and Olive wonders if she will ever be taken seriously.  Jack, a recently widowed chef, reluctantly takes up a new role in the royal kitchens at Sandringham. Lacking in purpose and direction, Jack has abandoned his dream to have his own restaurant, but his talents are soon noticed and while he might not believe in himself, others do, and a chance encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and ambition.  As Jack and Olive’s paths continue to cross over the following five Christmases, they grow ever closer. Yet Olive carries the burden of a heavy secret that threatens to destroy everything.  Christmas Day, December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…