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Title: Samurai

Subtitle: Cherry Blossoms Fall

Author: Alex Ness, Josh Brown

Narrator: Scott Shinall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-15

Publisher: Uffda Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Samurai commonly describes a warrior in Japan who serves a lord, using combat skills and living by the code of Bushido. But not everyone followed the code so directly, nor was every samurai so bold and courageous. So while the truth is somewhere between the idealized icon of fidelity and bravery, and bullies with swords, this work features the samurai who lived by their code.

Inspired by the great and legendary samurai themselves, this work of short stories, poems, and quotes is meant to evoke, however briefly, life from the viewpoint of the samurai.

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Title: The Very Thought of You

Author: Mary Fitzgerald

Narrator: Penelope Freeman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-15

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1944. Three girls join a touring variety group and travel through Europe, entertaining the troops as World War II draws to a close.

In the wake of D-Day, three very different women join a touring variety company, performing to factory girls, hospitals and serving troops.

Catherine's husband has been reported missing in action, and she needs a job to support her mother and daughter. Della, a Liverpudlian showgirl, is ambitious for fame and hides her problems behind a devil-may-care attitude. Frances, titled but impoverished, will do anything to keep the family home safe for her brother, a POW in the Far East.

Travelling from show to show, the three women form a strong bond. But when they follow the advancing army through France, their friendship deepens as the company is stalked by lies and betrayal, and it's clear that nobody will come home the same.

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Title: Thieving Forest

Author: Martha Conway

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, 17-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives. One sister is left for dead, and two others are traded to a band of Wyandots for the price of a horse.

Susanna spends the next five months searching for them, unaware that the man who loves her, Seth Spendlove, is also in pursuit. Part Potawatomi himself, Seth unwittingly sets off on his own quest to reclaim his heritage. He allies himself with a Potawatomi named Koman, and together they canoe through the Great Black Swamp and into enemy territory looking for Susanna. Surviving snake bite, near starvation, and captivity, Susanna transforms herself from the perennial younger sister to a capable young woman determined to find her family. Thieving Forest is a riveting novel that demonstrates the true wildness of the wilderness and the rugged perseverance of those who find themselves there.

Critic Reviews:

"A gripping journey through early 19th century America...a powerful tale of sisterhood and survival." (San Jose Mercury News)

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Title: Dictator

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-15

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

There was a time when Cicero held Caesars life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure, and Ciceros life is in ruins.

Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles.

His comeback requires wit, skill and courage - and, for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome.

But politics is never static, and no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.

Riveting and tumultuous, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic events in human history yet is also an intimate portrait of a brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful yet ultimately brave man - a hero for his time and for ours.

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Title: Stones

Author: Ruby Standing Deer

Narrator: Karen Rose Richter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-15

Publisher: Evolved Publishing LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Book 3 of the saga of Shining Light's people, the listener is swept into the changing world of ancient Native America. The peace that Shining Light and his family have enjoyed in the Land of the Tall Trees is shattered by his young daughter. Dove's dream of mustangs, and of a young American Indian boy named Singing Stone, and his family known as the Mustang People, will not let her rest.

The coming of the wild mustangs blessed Singing Stone's people with a better way of life, and now these beautiful creatures are being slaughtered. Spurred on by the discovery of the yellow stone, the Hairy-Faces join with the Likes to Fight People to drive out other bands. What better way to weaken the Mustang People than to capture or kill the mustangs? Singing Stone and his family fight to protect them, but what can three do against many?

Far away in the Land of Tall Trees, Dove still dreams of the mustang boy. Certain that her destiny is to be with him, young Dove begs her father to take her to him, back out onto the dangerous grasslands. Will they arrive in time to save Singing Stone and his people?

When an attack by the Likes to Fight People leaves all of their possessions destroyed, Singing Stone and his family join the Blue Sky People, and together they become the Blue Sky Mustang People. With winter and danger looming ever closer, the mustangs and their protectors must keep moving, even though it is the season to stay in one place. Can they stop the Likes to Fight People and the Hairy-Faces from killing the mustangs?

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Title: The Gods of Tango

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Carolina De Robertis

Narrator: Carolina De Robertis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature - a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change.

February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets. Leda eventually acts on a long-held desire to master the violin, knowing that she can never play in public as a woman. She cuts off her hair, binds her breasts, and becomes "Dante," a young man who joins a troupe of tango musicians bent on conquering the salons of high society. Now, gradually, the lines between Leda and Dante begin to blur, and feelings that she has long kept suppressed reveal themselves, jeopardizing not only her musical career, but her life.

Richly evocative of place and time, its prose suffused with the rhythms of the tango, its narrative at once resonant and gripping, this is De Robertis's most accomplished novel yet.

Critic Reviews:

"De Robertis brings a beautiful voice to the history and intensity of the tango in this coming-of-age romance of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires.... None of the passion is lost in De Robertis's narration. Character differentiation is almost flawless, and De Robertis's accent adds much to the flavor of the setting and the characters.... De Robertis's narration is so good that, while there are technically no voicings, each character seems almost as distinct as those performed by a narrator using multiple voices." (AudioFile)

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Titre: Le roi de fer (Les rois maudits 1)

Auteur: Maurice Druon

Narrateur: François Berland

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-02-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans la France du XIVème siècle, Philippe IV, dit le Bel, roi d'une beauté légendaire, mène le pays d'une main de fer. Devant lui il n'est d'autre choix que de plier ou de rompre ; seule compte l'idée de la nation et rien ne doit en entraver la grandeur et la force. Pour réformer l'état et le moderniser il ne recule devant aucune sacrifice. L'histoire commence avec le fameux procès que Philippe le Bel fit aux Templiers pour en amoindrir le trop grand pouvoir et confisquer leur immense fortune.

A l'heure de son exécution, François de Molay, grand maître de l'ordre des Templiers, lui jeta sa fameuse malédiction : "Pape Clément ! ... Chevalier Guillaume ! ... Roi Philippe ! ... avant un an je vous cite à paraître au tribunal de Dieu pour y recevoir la juste châtiment. Maudits ! Maudits ! Tous maudits jusqu'à la treizième générations de vos races ... !" Le destin donnera-t-il raison au grand maître ? Voici l'histoire.

Le Roi de Fer est le premier des sept volumes composant la célèbre fresque historique : Les rois maudits.

©1970 Maurice Druon (P)2015 Sixtrid SAS

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Title: Gai-Jin

Subtitle: The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan

Author: James Clavell

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shgun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire - their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, and torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans, and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's masterpiece set in 19th-century Japan - an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.

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Title: Shame of Man

Author: Piers Anthony

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Piers Anthony's Shame of Man is a towering saga of remarkable scope, retelling the story of humanity in a daring and exciting way. At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Shame of Man recounts the stunning journey of a single family reborn again and again throughout history.

Beginning in the earliest origins of our ancient ancestors who emerged from the Eden of Africa millions of years ago, Shame of Man follows two lovers - Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a beautiful dancer - as they struggle to preserve their family and their way of life during some of the most turbulent periods of our savage past. Their saga takes them from the caves of prehistoric Europe to the Holy Land in the time of King David, through the imperial court of third century Japan and Damascus in the early days of Islam to Central Asia in the era of Genghis Khan and the fallen paradise of Easter Island, concluding with a harrowing glimpse of our future in the wreckage of a world devastated by global ecological catastrophe. Through their eyes we experience humanity's greatest triumphs and witness its greatest shame, the relentless exploitation of nature that now threatens our very survival.

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Title: Nothing Like the Sun

Author: Anthony Burgess

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nothing Like the Sun is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing. It is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with extraordinariness of genius.

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