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Title: The Eye in the Door: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 2

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Peter Firth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-06

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 99 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1918, and Prior is in London working as an intelligence officer. His concern is the enemy within though a clear definition of who exactly the enemy is proves harder to come by than he might have imagined.

©2005 Pat Barker; ((P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Title: For the Temple

Author: G. A. Henty

Narrator: William Sutherland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-06-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this stirring tale of the last days of the Temple at Jerusalem, robber bands and political infighting set the stage for the Roman destruction of the city in 70 A.D. In the face of overwhelming odds, John of Gamala does his best to save God's Temple, harassing Roman work parties, burning Roman camps, defending Jerusalem during the Roman siege, and even fighting Titus himself in hand-to-hand combat, forging a relationship with the Roman leader that lasts until after the war. In spite of fighting a losing battle, John keeps his integrity and honor intact.

(P)2002 Blackstone Audio Inc

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Title: Assassins of Rome

Subtitle: Roman Mysteries #4

Author: Caroline Lawrence

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-06

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is A.D. 79. In Ostia, near Rome, Flavia Gemina and her three friends, Nubia, Lupus, and Jonathan, are celebrating Jonathan's birthday. Then a visitor from the past arrives to see Jonathan's father. The next day, the visitor has disappeared, and so has Jonathan. When the three friends discover that Jonathan has gone on a secret mission to Rome, they immediately follow him. Their journey takes them to the Golden House of the Emperor Nero, where a deadly assassin is at work, and brings them face-to-face with the terrible destruction of Jerusalem.

©2003 Caroline Lawrence; (P)2006 Listening Library

Critic Reviews:

"A fast-paced adventure." (School Library Journal)

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Title: Dark Angels

Author: Karleen Koen

Narrator: Donada Peters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-06

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 112 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is moving to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn't mind seeing dead. But Alice, loyal only to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be making sinister plans, and if her own father is one of them. When a member of the royal family dies unexpectedly, and poison is suspected, the stakes are raised. Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is and isn't true to the queen, learns of shocking betrayals throughout the court, and meets a man she may be falling in love with and who may spoil all of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety of the king himself seems uncertain. Secret plots are at play, and war is on the horizon, but will it be with the Dutch or the French? And has King Charles himself betrayed his country for greed?

The long-awaited prequel to Koen's beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of 17th-century England.

Critic Reviews:

"Koen blends history, mystery, and romance to craft a historical romance that will delight fans of the genre." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Spy

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrator: Flo Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-06

Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Henry is a British officer and has crossed behind American lines in disguise. When American troops arrive unexpectedly, Henry is discovered and arrested as a spy. Adding grief to the family's pain is the connection to Henry's captor, the noble Major Dunwoodie. He is Henry's sister's fiance and Henry's own childhood friend; and they must all remain at the Whartons' until Dunwoodie can escort Henry to Washington for his trial.

The plans for departing are delayed when British forces enter the vicinity and a battle breaks out within sight. When the British are defeated, Dunwoodie quarters captured Colonel Wellmere in the Wharton home. Now quarantined with prisoners and quartered American officers, the Whartons wait for their beloved Henry to be taken away and tried. Little does any of them know that the real spy still roams free and plies his trade within their midst.

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Title: Sea of Grey

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 203 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Our rakish hero, Alan Lewrie, is in trouble with his wife, condemned by his daughter, and out of favor with the Admiralty. He is lucky enough to receive a command position on an expedition to the West Indies, there to suppress a bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. In Haiti, L'Ouverture's forces are sacking plantations and slaughtering whites and mulattoes. The French make a hasty compact with the English, as only the English have the strength required to stop L'Ouverture and his general Dessalines. Needless to say, Lewrie finds plenty of engagements, both of the naval and the romantic kind; between white-hot battles, a bevy of international beauties sees to his every fleshly comfort. Author Lambdin puts the "buckle" in "swashbuckle".

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©2002 Dewey Lambdin (P)2003 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"The lively pace and white-knuckle battle scenes should make this another winner." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Pirates!

Author: Celia Rees

Narrator: Jennifer Wiltsie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-04

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 162 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For Nancy, the Deliverance is her escape from an arranged betrothal to a controlling and devilish man. For Minerva, it is an escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship, and the chance to see the world not as women, but as bold and daring pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.

A powerful, thrilling, and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.

Critic Reviews:

"A rip-roaring adventure with an engaging female heroine." (School Library Journal)

"Rees evokes the times with stunning precision, and in Nancy's fierce, period-appropriate voice, she tells a riveting, full-speed adventure filled with girl-powered action, magic, and love, even as it explores the brutality and horror of dark historical times." (Booklist)

"Listeners will be enchanted by Jennifer Wiltsie's narration of the exploits of female pirates Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe." (AudioFile)

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Title: The Birth of Venus

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sarah Dunant

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-04

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

Critic Reviews:

"Arresting tale of art, love and betrayal....Dunant's vivid, gripping novel gives fresh life to a captivating age of glorious art and political turmoil." (Publishers Weekly)

"Lush and intellectually gripping novel....This is a beautifully written and captivating work." (Booklist)

"The imaginative energy of the enterprise is clearly warmblooded, playful, even reckless....Dunant puts me in mind of a well-fed cat, quick-witted house cat, crouched before the mouse hole of history. She's not that hungry, but she will pounce upon whatever emerges, just for the fun of chasing is all over the house." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Sterlin invokes excitement in hushed tones and invites one to reflect on poignant moments. Both Dunant and Sterlin catch the excitement of this important period in history." (AudioFile)

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Title: Through the Storm

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 207 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Beginning in 1864, Through the Storm chronicles the tumultuous lives of onetime lovers Raimond Le Veq and Sable Fontaine. The Le Veq family was a proud, prominent black New Orleans family until their fortune was plundered in the chaos of the Civil War. It's the charge of former Union Major Raimond Le Veq to restore the lost wealth of his family.

Raimond once loved a woman--the lusty, beautiful, and complex former slave, Sable Fontaine--but she coldly betrayed him during the war. When Raimond's mother inexplicably chooses Sable as his bride-to-be, Raimond doesn't know if he will ever be able to trust the treacherous Sable again.

About Beverly Jenkins, The Detroit Free Press says she is "[H]eading for superstar status." Kim Staunton's sensuous narration will thoroughly satisfy all connoisseurs of fine romance.

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Title: High Country

Author: Willard Wyman

Narrator: Ken Marks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, a legend in the Montana Rockies.

High Country follows Ty through his packing apprenticeship and into World War II. Wounded and shipped home, Ty recovers by packing into the Montana mountains he loves, even as he watches human traffic through them take its ecological toll.

After his mentor dies, Ty leaves Montana for the Sierra Nevada--the highest country of all--where he becomes a legend in his own right.

Critic Reviews:

"The characters are so well drawn, the authenticity of detail so finely wrought, you'd think they come from life. And you'd be right." (True West)

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