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Title: Katharine, the Virgin Widow

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jean Plaidy

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On that delicate point hinged Katharine's - and England's - future. Meanwhile, waiting in the wings was her willful, handsome brother-in-law, bold Prince Henry, who alone had the power to restore Katharine's lost position.

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Title: Lords of the White Castle

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Christopher Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-08

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 92 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Thus begins a bitter and life-long personal rivalry. The FitzWarins dream of returning to their family home, Whittington, taken from them during a war. But John is vindictive and his delight in denying the FitzWarins what is rightfully theirs leads to Fulke's renouncing his allegiance and turning outlaw.

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Title: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Author: Gail Tsukiyama

Narrator: Stephen Park

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-07

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 192 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Across town, a renowned sumo master, Sho Tanaka, lives with his wife and their two young daughters: the delicate, daydreaming Aki and her independent sister, Haru. Life seems full of promise as Kenji begins an informal apprenticeship with the most famous mask-maker in Japan and Hiroshi receives a coveted invitation to train with Tanaka. But then Pearl Harbor changes everything. As the ripples of war spread to both families' quiet neighborhoods, all of the generations must put their dreams on hold - and then find their way in a new Japan.

In an exquisitely moving story that spans almost 30 years, Gail Tsukiyama draws us irresistibly into the world of the brothers and the women who love them. It is a world of tradition and change, of heartbreaking loss and surprising hope, and of the impact of events beyond their control on ordinary, decent men and women. Above all, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a masterpiece about love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers.

Critic Reviews:

"Gail Tsukiyama is a writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling. Her lyric precision serves not only to leave the reader breathless but to illuminate human suffering and redemption with clarity and power." (Michael Chabon)"Well written and emotionally gripping." (

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Title: The Maytrees

Author: Annie Dillard

Narrator: David Rasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-07

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting, and when their son, Pete, arrives, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving and ironic. Theirs is a simple and bold story.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness while presenting willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.

Critic Reviews:

"Dillard calls on her erudition as a naturalist and her grace as a poet to create an enthralling story of marriage - particular and universal, larky and monumental." (Publishers Weekly)

"As she casts a spell sensuous and metaphysical, Dillard covertly bids us to emulate may trees - the resilient hawthorn - the tree of joy, of spring, of the heart." (Booklist)

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Title: Attila

Subtitle: The Scourge of God

Author: Ross Laidlaw

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-07

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the fifth century, the Western Roman Empire has been overrun by German tribes. In a series of brilliant campaigns, Aetius, last of the great Roman generals, forces the Germans to settle peacefully. But his old friend Attila, leader of the Huns, has turned his attention to the West, and a confrontation between the two, now bitter enemies, is inevitable.

©2004 Ross Laidlaw; (P)2007 Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Critic Reviews:

"Laidlaw...gives a vivid picture of a distant, bloody time, and tells his story splendidly." (The Scotsman)

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Title: Stormy Weather

Author: Paulette Jiles

Narrator: Colleen Delany

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-07

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Oil is king in East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. And in every small town, their mother, Elizabeth, does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home.

But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm.

It is Jeanine Stoddard who devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well, and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine must decide if she will gamble it all...on love.

Critic Reviews:

"Eloquent, engaging....Jiles winds this gritty saga up on the eve of WWII with a patchwork quilt's worth of hope." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The White Monkey

Subtitle: The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 4

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 89 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred.

Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, must root out the rumored indiscretions of a manager's dubious dealings with the Germans. The whole while, he is haunted by a painting of a white monkey with rinds of crushed fruit flung about it - and with eyes searching for something more.

John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.

Critic Reviews:

"A social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray's Vanity Fair...the whole comedy of manners, convincing both in its fidelity to life and as a work of art." (New York Times)

"[Galsworthy] has carried the history of his time through three generations, and his success in mastering so excellently his enormously difficult material, both in its scope and in its depth, remains an extremely memorable feat in English literature." (Anders Osterling, Nobel Prize presentation speech, 1932)

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Title: Sylvia

Author: Bryce Courtenay

Narrator: Edwina Wren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-07

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 199 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes a colorful, lusty story set in the 13th century, an epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance. The story centers around Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees. The narrative also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, and the fervor that becomes the Children's Crusade and then, later, the Crusades.

©2006 Bryce Courtenay; (P)2006 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Title: The Tumblers

Subtitle: A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'

Author: Nathan Englander

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-07

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a group of World War II-era Hasids, mistakenly put on a circus train instead of a transport to a death camp, are assumed to be acrobats. They perform a clumsy act, which their Nazi audience applauds as a parody of "Jewish ballet".

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©1999 Nathan Englander; (P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Englander's voice is distinctly his own: daring, funny and exuberant." (The New York Times)

"Taut, edgy, sharply observed....A revelation of the human condition." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Remarkable art....The author fills each of these pieces with vivid life, with characters that jump off the page." (Newsday)

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Title: The Ravenscar Dynasty

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrator: Ric Jerrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 40 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Handsome, charismatic, and a notorious womanizer, Edward battles his cousin, Henry Grant, for control of the family empire. Elizabeth Wyland, a young widow and a great beauty, stands by his side, and they are secretly married. She is power hungry and ambitious. But Edward also has a mistress: Jane Shaw, a constant in his life. And as Elizabeth's jealousy damages their marriage, Edward's only solace is Bess, his brilliant first born. But the house of Deravenel is fatally rocked when betrayal comes from within. Soon, catastrophe threatens to destroy the family and the business.

Power and money, passion and adultery, ambition and treachery all illuminate a dramatic epic saga set against the backdrop of the Edwardian era and the belle epoque, just before the First World War.

Critic Reviews:

"Lusty escapist fiction." (Publishers Weekly) "Barbara Taylor Bradford is the storyteller of substance." (The Times [London])

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