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Title: The Fine Point of His Soul

Author: Julie Bozza

Narrator: David Micklem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-18

Publisher: Julie Bozza

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

He was the shameful cause of his sister Elena's death, and he stole state papers from England, yet Adrian Hart is feted by the best of society in Rome and boldly dubs himself "Iago".

Determined to avenge Elena, his unrequited love, Lieutenant Andrew Sullivan asks the advice of poet and Shakespearean John Keats and his artist friend, Severn. Soon, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley join them, then Lord Byron and his servant, Fletcher.

But how can the seven of them work against this man when they can't even agree what he is? The atheist, Shelley, insists that Hart is an ordinary man, while Byron becomes convinced he's the devil incarnate, and Keats flirts with the idea that he's Dionysius....

As death and despair follow in Hart's wake, Sullivan knows he must do something to stop Hart before even Sullivan himself succumbs - but what?

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Title: The Emperor's Coloured Coat

Subtitle: The Otto Prohaska Novels, Book 2

Author: John Biggins

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-18

Publisher: McBooks Press, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Early in the year 1912, the recently-promoted Lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself stuck as a gunnery officer aboard a battleship mostly moored in harbor. He answers a War Ministry advertisement for training as a naval air pilot, but he soon finds himself appointed aide-de-camp for aviation to the appalling, boorish, near-insane Austro-Hungarian heir-apparent: the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

After breaking a leg in a flying accident, Prohaska is relieved of his duties, and upon his recovery, he is posted to a river gunboat on the Danube. After an ill-considered liaison with a Polish opera singer, he flees her vengeful husband into Serbian territory. There, a case of mistaken identity enmeshes him in a Serbian anarchist plot to kill the Austro-Hungarian chief of staff with a small diversionary operation in the town of Sarajevo - the assassination of the Archduke.

His warnings of the assassination plot are mysteriously disregarded by Austrian officials, and Prohaska is whisked off to Shanghai aboard an Austrian liner, where he arrives just in time for the outbreak of World War One. Plenty more outlandish adventures await him: an insider's view of the Japanese siege of a German colony, an escape aboard a Chinese junk, and instruction in the art of flat-earth marine navigation. Finally, Prohaska must come to grips with the decision, by a not-very-bright commandant of a Turkish fort in the Arabian desert, that he should be hanged as a spy.

With irony, wit, historical accuracy, and telling detail, Biggins brings alive a time and place that spawned two World Wars, the Cold War, and the Balkan wars of the late 20th century.

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Title: The Gardener of Baghdad

Author: Ahmad Ardalan

Narrator: Randal Schaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-17

Publisher: Ahmad Ardalan

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?"

Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption, and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of 40 years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes across the story of Ali, the Gardener of Baghdad. Adnan rediscovers through a memoir handwritten by the gardener decades ago that beauty, love, and hope can still exist, even in the darkest corners of the world.

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Title: Private Life Of The Mughals Of India

Subtitle: 1526-1803 A.D.

Author: R. Nath

Narrator: Surjan Singh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The opulent, sometimes scandalous private lives of the Mughals of India is brought to life in this book. The text covers various aspects of their lifestyles, such as their food and drinks; clothes and ornaments; perfumes and incense; addictions and intoxicants; amusements and pastimes; rituals of circumcision; and marriage and harem life. This well-written book will be a delight to the lay reader as well as the serious scholar.

Titled as it is, the book deals with the little known but much scandalised private life of the Mughals, who ruled from 1526 practically to 1803, when the British captured Delhi and Agra, their nerve centres, from them. This included the period of the reign of three great Mughals, viz. Akbar (1556-1605), Jehangir (1605-27) and Shah Jahan (1628-58), of little more than a century.

They possessed not only fabulous wealth but also the vision to found a culture-state in the real sense of the term. Planting it in the soil as naturally as a banyan tree, they institutionalized their life as much as their government. The former, almost completely shrouded in mystery, offers one of the most interesting aspects of medieval Indian history and culture.

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Title: The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An endearing stand-alone story from best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith.

Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so, too, did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her aunt.

Little persuasion was needed for Mike to take Peter Woodhouse to the airbase, and over time he became the mascot of the American squad, flying with them whenever their Mosquitoes took to the skies.

When their plane is shot down over Holland, both Mike and Peter Woodhouse are feared lost. But unknown to their loved ones at home, Mike and Peter Woodhouse survived the crash. Taken in by the Dutch resistance and with the help of Ubi, a German officer, the pair remain in hiding until the end of the war, when they are reunited with Val.

We then follow Val, Mike and Peter Woodhouse as they rebuild a life in England and Ubi as he returns to Germany at the end of the war and tries to build a new life for himself. His dream is to run a Wall of Death, a circus ring that pits motorcyclists against gravity as they attempt to stay upright at ever increasing speed....

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Title: 2 - 2 [The Last Mandarin 2: The Heavenly Tree]

Author: - - Zhao Li, - - Zhang Yuxin

Narrator: - - Zhou Jianlong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: BOVCM

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin.

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Titre: Un monde sans fin (Les Piliers de la terre 2.2)

Auteur: Ken Follett

Narrateur: Martin Spinhayer

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 24 hrs and 24 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-02-17

Éditeur: Audiolib

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Kingsbridge, 1327. Quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre.

Leurs quatre destinées sen trouveront changées... Gwenda, voleuse espiègle, poursuivra un amour impossible ; Caris, libre et passionnée, devra défier l'autorité de l'Église, et renoncer à celui qu'elle aime ; Merthin deviendra un constructeur de génie et rejoindra l'Italie pour accomplir son destin d'architecte ; Ralph deviendra un noble corrompu, prêt à tout pour satisfaire sa soif de pouvoir et de vengeance.

Prospérités éphémères, famines, guerres cruelles, ravages de la peste noire... Appuyée sur une documentation historique remarquable, cette fresque épique dépeint avec virtuosité toutes les émotions humaines, à travers un demi-siècle d'histoire mouvementée...

©2007 / 2008 Ken Follett / Traduction française : Éditions Robert Laffont, S. A., Paris (P)2008 Audiolib

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Title: The Trick

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Emanuel Bergmann

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing.

In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent.

Seven decades later in Los Angeles, 10-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in which Zabbatini performs his love spell - the spell Max believes will keep his disintegrating family together - is damaged beyond repair. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks out the now elderly, cynical magician and begs him to perform his magic on his parents. As the two develop an unlikely friendship, Moshe discovers that Max and his family have a surprising connection to the dark, dark days the Great Zabbatini experienced during the war.

Recalling the melancholy humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the heartbreaking pathos of the film Life Is Beautiful, this outstanding first novel is at once an irreverent yet deeply moving story about a young boy who believes in magic and a disillusioned old man who believes in nothing, as well as a gripping and heartfelt tale about the circle of life.

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Titre: Aliena (Les Piliers de la terre 1.2)

Auteur: Ken Follett

Narrateur: Patrick Descamps

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 21 hrs and 54 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 09-13-17

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Une fresque monumentale par le plus grand bâtisseur de romans historiques de notre époque.

1123. Motivés par d'obscures raisons, un prêtre, un chevalier et un moine font pendre un prisonnier après un procès expéditif. Une étrange malédiction semble alors s'abattre sur eux.

ALIENA

1140. La construction de la grande cathédrale est sur le point de commencer. À l'appel du clergé, des travailleurs de toute l'Angleterre affluent vers la ville de Kingsbridge, dans l'espoir de racheter leurs péchés par le dur labeur de la pierre. Déterminé à s'emparer du comté de Shiring, William Hamleigh, l'un des prétendants au trône, dresse une armée contre ses rivaux : une guerre civile éclate. Dans son sillage de flammes et de dévastations, le peuple, assoiffé de justice, de vérité ou de vengeance, œuvre à reconstruire la vie qu'on lui a arrachée. Les destins de Philip, le prieur, de Jack, le bâtisseur, ou de la jeune aristocrate Aliena vont s'entremêler. Tous égaux devant Dieu, ils seront seuls pour affronter leur sort.

©2017 / 2015 / 1989 / 1990 Audiolib / Ken Follett. Titre original "The Pillars of the Earth", publié par Macmillan Ltd., Londres. Traduction française : Éditions Stock et Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris (P)2017 Audiolib

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Title: Rain Clouds and Waterfalls

Author: Piper Templeton

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Piper Templeton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A novel told in short stories, follow young Ellen as she narrates each story of love, loss, longing, friendship, and entrapment. Inspired by the artistry of the Beatles, each story is framed by a Beatles song or actual Beatles event. Follow Ellen's journey from 1976 to 1990: Her beloved brother's disappearance from the family, which she carries with her throughout the book; her navigation through high school as she searches for friendship and love (and a musical instrument), loses her innocence in more ways than one, and is scarred by John's death; her challenges in the 1980s workplace as she confronts sexual harassment; her growth as a young woman taking charge of her life. Ellen injects insight, wisdom in hindsight, and humor into these slice of life stories.

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