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Title: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Gideon Defoe

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island... Actually, not since "Jonah and the Whale" has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest seafaring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition.

Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.

While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it.

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Title: Cain at Gettysburg

Author: Ralph Peters

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 154 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Two mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. Theyll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town where no one planned to fight. In this sweeping, savagely realistic novel, the greatest battle ever fought on American soil explodes into life at Gettysburg. As generals squabble, staffs err. Tragedy unfolds for immigrants in blue and barefoot Rebels alike. The fate of the nation will be decided in a few square miles of fields. There are no marble statues here, only men of flesh and blood, imperfect and courageous. Following a tough Confederate sergeant from the Blue Ridge, a bitter Irish survivor of the Great Famine, a German political refugee, and gun crews in blue and gray, Cain at Gettysburg, from New York Times best-selling author and former U.S. Army officer Ralph Peters, is bound to become a classic of men at war.

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Title: Whispers of the Greybull

Author: Stephen B Smart

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-11

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty-two years old Cole Morgan struggled after a career ending football injury and then the tragic loss of his parents in the winter of 1937. He felt like a man with no destination... running from lost opportunities and memories better left alone. Maybe it was for this reason he accepted the offer of a near stranger to use his education and backcountry skills to work on the Greybull, one of the largest ranches in Wyoming. With little fanfare he packed all his worldly possessions in his beloved truck and headed for the small town of Meeteetsee. After falling gravely ill upon arrival and being nursed back to health by Julie McCabe, the ranchers daughter, Cole begins to realize that his future may hinge on long-held secrets of the ranch. Hell be tested by tough men, rogue animals, and the worst nature can muster trying to solve the 70-year-old mystery that could save the Greybull Ranch.

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Title: Fire the Sky

Subtitle: Book Two of Contact: The Battle for America

Author: W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Narrator: Kevin Orton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 40 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Best-selling writing team and archaeologists W. Michael and Kathleen ONeal Gear offer this compelling second novel in their Battle for America series. In 1539, Black Shell, his wife Pearl Hand, and their fellow exiles try to make a stand against the invasion of the Kristianos and their leader Hernando de Soto. But de Soto doesnt plan to back down easily.

Critic Reviews:

[A] powerful historical tale (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: H.M.S. Saracen

Author: Douglas Reeman

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Malta 1941. To most people H.M.S. Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to protect.

But to Captain Richard Chesnaye she brings back memories - memories of the First World War when he and the old monitor went through the Gallipoli campaign together. It seems that captain and ship are both past their best. But as the war enters a new phase Chesnaye senses the possibility of a fresh, significant role - for him and the Saracen.

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Title: Coming of the Storm

Author: W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Narrator: Kevin Orton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Of best-selling husband-and-wife writing team W. Michael and Kathleen ONeal Gear, Booklist proclaims that nobody does Native Americana better than the Gears. Coming of the Storm launches a series featuring Black Shell, a Chicazaclan trader, and his struggles with Hernando de Soto, an invader intent on spreading Catholicism at the point of his sword.

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Title: The Grand Sophy

Author: Georgette Heyer

Narrator: Clare Wille

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 166 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Resourceful, adventurous and utterly indefatigable, Sophy is hardly the mild-mannered girl that the Rivenhalls expect when they agree to take her in. Kind-hearted Aunt Lizzy is shocked; stern Cousin Charles and his humourless fiancée Eugenia are disapproving. With her inimitable mixture of exuberance and grace Sophy soon sets about endearing herself to her family, but finds herself increasingly drawn to her cousin. Can she really be falling in love with him, and he with her? And what of his betrothal to Eugenia?

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Title: Before Versailles

Subtitle: A Novel of Louis XIV

Author: Karleen Koen

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young manthe man before Versailles?

After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, 22-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. Hes still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can getincluding his brothers wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess Henriette burns, it sets the kingdom on the road to unmistakable scandal and conflict with the Vatican. Every woman wants him. He must face what he is willing to sacrifice for love.

But there are other problems lurking outside the chateau of Fontainebleau: a boy in an iron mask has been seen in the woods, and the kings finance minister, Nicolas Fouquet, has proven more powerful than Louis ever thoughta man who could make a great ally or become a dangerous foe.

Meticulously researched and brought vividly to life by the gorgeous prose of Karleen Koen, Before Versailles dares to explore the forces that shaped an iconic king and determined the fate of an empire.

Critic Reviews:

In this magnificently written and researched novel, Karleen Koen brings to vibrant life the early years and loves of the future Sun King. (Jean M. Auel, New York Times best-selling author)

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Title: The Legion

Author: Simon Scarrow

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-11

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 63 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling author of Centurion and The Gladiator returns with another action-packed Roman adventure.

Trouble is brewing in Egypt. Rebel gladiator Ajax and his men have been posing as Roman soldiers and attacking naval bases, merchant vessels, and villages. Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro have been charged with the task of tracking down the renegade warrior before the problem gets out of control. Joining forces with Legion III, the hope is to destroy their enemy on the battlefield. But the cunning gladiator has other ideas....

Critic Reviews:

"I don't need this kind of competition." (Bernard Cornwell)

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Title: Accordion Crimes

Author: Annie Proulx

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-11

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers and listeners across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Accordion Crimes is another masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent.

The book opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his 11-year-old son, carrying little more than the accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. The music is their last link with the past - voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance - but it, too, is forced to change.

Proulx's prodigious knowledge, heartbreaking characters, and daring storytelling unite the sections of Accordion Crimes - a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.

Critic Reviews:

"In scale, in vision and in imaginative darling, Accordion Crimes uses all the range and the resources of Proulx's mature prose.... She is a great novelist." (The New Republic)

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