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Title: Stormbird: The Wars of the Roses (Book 1)

Series: #1 of The Wars of the Roses

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Roy McMillan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The epic first instalment in the thrilling War of the Roses series, perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, Bernard Cornwell and Wolf Hall. King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is dead. It's up to his son to take the throne, but frail in body and mind, he is dependent on his supporters to run his kingdom. Richard, Duke of York, believes that without a strong king England will fall. And as the threat from France grows, and rebellion on home soil spreads, his fears seem justified. Who can save the throne? Who will defend the kingdom? © Conn Iggulden 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2013

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Title: The Aftermath: Now A Major Film Starring Keira Knightley

Author: Rhidian Brook

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A superbly controlled emotional thriller of passion, betrayal and conscience, set in post-War Germany, soon to be made into a major film. Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife Rachael and only remaining son Edmund. But rather than force its owners, a German widower and his traumatised daughter, to leave their home, Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged and claustrophobic atmosphere all must confront their true selves as enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal. The Aftermath is a stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, our deepest desires and the transforming power of forgiveness. The Aftermath is being developed as a feature film by Ridley Scott's production company Scott Free and BBC Films. Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction, television drama and film. His first novel The Testimony of Taliesin Jones won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including the Paris Review, New Statesman and Time Out, and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He is also a regular contributor to 'Thought For The Day' on the Today programme.

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Title: On Desperate Ground: A Novel

Author: James R. Benn

Narrator: Barry Press

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2013

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The thrilling story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them—life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fianc├®e and the demons that roar through his mind as he perfects a plan to save Nazi Germany from defeat and insure a greater and deadlier new world war. Captain Dieter Neukirk, once a prot├®g├® of Faust's, is more concerned with saving the lives of his remaining men than in sacrificing them in a fanatical last stand. Meanwhile, Elsa Klein, Dieter's lover and the chief social worker at a Berlin hospital, is engaged in her own dangerous work, providing medical care and identity papers to hidden Jews in the city. American Captain Mack Mackenzie, pulled from a military hospital before his wounds are healed, is assigned to investigate reports of a secret Nazi operation. Wanting only to make it home alive, Mack finds himself in a life and death struggle with unlikely allies and a ferociously determined opponent. Americans and Germans alike are drawn to a hilltop in the remote German countryside, where they find themselves between powerful armies and forced into a terrible decision that could end one war or begin a new one.

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Title: The Stranger I Married

Series: #2 of Historical Romance

Author: Sylvia Day

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the classic erotic romance novel, Sylvia Day's The Stranger I Married - a tale of love and awakened desire in Victorian England. Also by Sylvia Day: the sensational internationally bestselling Crossfire Series. They are London's most scandalous couple. Isabel, Lady Pelham, and Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson, are well matched in all things - lusty appetites, constant paramours, provocative reputations, and their absolute refusal to ruin a marriage of convenience by falling in love. It is a most agreeable sham - until a shocking event sends Gerard from her side. When, four years later, Gerard returns, the boyish rogue is now a powerful, irresistible man determined to seduce Isabel. He is not the man she married - but is he the one to finally steal her heart? Praise for Sylvia Day: 'Move over Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins, this is the dawn of a new Day' Amuse 'Several shades darker and a hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before' Reveal

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Title: Pride and Pleasure: Erotic Romance

Series: #3 of Historical Romance

Author: Sylvia Day

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Pride and Pleasure, the classic erotic romance - by the Number One international bestselling author of the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust. Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical scheming to get her to the altar. She won't be bullied, however, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. She needs a man to infiltrate her suitors and find the villain. Thief-taker Jasper Bond is entirely too devilish and too dangerous - who'd believe Eliza would be seduced by a man like him? But client satisfaction is a point of pride with Jasper and it's his pleasure to prove he's just the man - for all her needs. Praise for Sylvia Day: 'Move over Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins, this is the dawn of a new Day' Amuse 'Several shades darker and a hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before' Reveal

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Title: The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: Bob Sessions

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin Classics presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Bob Sessions. 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss' Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction. Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.

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Title: The Chaperone

Author: Laura Moriarty

Narrator: Elizabeth McGovern

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2012

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone, read by the actress Elizabeth McGovern, best-known for her role as Cora, Countess of Grantham in the hit TV series Downton Abbey. On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.

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Title: Cold Sassy Tree

Series: #1 of The Cold Sassy Series

Author: Olive Ann Burns

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s charming tale is a classic. One thing you could depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, was that word got around—fast. If the preacher’s wife’s petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee. On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy’s adventures began, and an unimpeachably pious town came to life. As the newlyweds’ chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his renegade grandfather’s second adolescence. Meanwhile, Will does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it, and he kisses his first girl and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny Southern romance.

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Title: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Author: James Weldon Johnson

Narrator: William Andrew Quinn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 0 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2011

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the “Ex-Colored Man,” which is the only name by which the protagonist is referred, represents what, at the time was, a social contradiction of race and culture, he is forced to choose which aspect of his heritage to publicly express. His options are to embrace his black heritage and culture, or to pass as a white man cloaked in middle-class, mediocre obscurity. Johnson’s novel explores racial tensions in late nineteenth and early twentieth century culture through this poignant coming-of-age story.

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Title: Defender of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 2): A heart-stopping and gripping novel of Roman adventure

Series: #2 of Gaius Valerius Verrens

Author: Douglas Jackson

Narrator: Cornelius Garrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. This riveting and action-packed historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson is real edge of your seat stuff! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane. Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! 'Absolutely incredible.' - 5 STARS. 'Gripping, violent and captivating.' - 5 STARS. 'The best Roman historical series I've yet read. Just pips Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden.' - 5 STARS ************************************************************** Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. But he is not the man he once was - scarred both physically and emotionally by the battles he has fought. And neither is Rome the same city as the one he left. The Emperor Nero grows increasingly paranoid. There is talk of a new threat, one found within the walls of Rome itself. A new religious sect, the followers of Christus, deny Nero's divinity and are rumoured to be spreading sedition. Nero calls on Valerius to seek out this rebel sect and to capture their leader. Failure would be to forfeit his life, and the lives of twenty thousand Judaeans living in Rome. But as Valerius begins his search, a quest which will take him to the edge of the empire, he will discover that success may cost him nearly as much as failure. Gaius Valerius Verrens's adventures continue in Avenger of Rome. © Douglas Jackson 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2011