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Title: Conquest

Series: #1 of Medieval Saga

Author: David Field

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The start of a thrilling series by popular historical fiction writer, David Field! Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, Alison Weir, and Anthony Riches. Life in England will never be the same again . . . England, 1065: The Saxon kingdom is under threat of invasion at both ends. From the north comes Harald Hardrada of Norway intent on pillage, while across the Channel, Duke William of Normandy is about to enforce his claim to the throne. Between the two lie the villages and townships defended only by part-time armies maintained by the Earls of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, barely united under King Harold Godwineson. It falls to brave and determined young men like Will Riveracre and Selwyn Astenmede to stand firm against whichever marauding invader reaches them first. But the initial battle could be the least of their worries as a new king ascends the throne—threatening to annihilate their traditions and customs forever. Is there any hope for the brave Saxon warriors? Can they adjust to the new way of life? Or will everything they once knew be changed forever . . . ?

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Title: A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache

Author: Jenni L. Walsh

Narrator: Elisabeth Lagelee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Born Simone Jules, reinvented as Eleanor Dumont, and largely remembered as Madame Moustache, A Betting Woman is a historical novel inspired by the tumultuous life, times, and loves of America's first professional croupier of modern-day blackjack, bringing to life an intrepid and entrepreneurial real-life woman who lived on her own terms. When her whole family dies in a fire, young Simone Jules flees her grief and travels west to reinvent herself in burgeoning San Francisco. Down to her last dollar and facing some unsavory options, Simone quick-wits her way to a gambling table where she begins to deal vingt-et-un—modern-day blackjack. Word travels fast among of this French-speaking, card-playing novelty, and she begins to build a new life for herself. Fans of Thelma Adams, Therese Anne Fowler, and Marie Benedict will root for the quick-witted, charming, and self-sufficient Eleanor as she paves her way in a man's world and into the pages of history.

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Title: Storyteller

Author: Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrator: Tara Gatewood

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'A rich, many-faceted book.' -- The New York Times A classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, and family memories. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work. This edition includes a new introduction by Silko.

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Title: [Spanish] - El taller de libros prohibidos

Author: Olalla García

Narrator: Rebeca Hernando

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Un thriller histórico ambientado en el fascinante mundo del libro en el siglo XVI. Novela histórica y de intriga, El taller de libros prohibidos nos transporta a la época en la que imprimir, vender y leer libros podía llegar ser una actividad sumamente peligrosa. Alcalá de Henares, 1572. La joven librera Inés Ramírez acaba de quedar viuda y ha de ponerse al frente del negocio familiar. Pronto descubre que su esposo poseía la clave de acceso al único ejemplar de un libro prohibido, cuya desaparición había sido ordenada por el poder político y la Iglesia siglos atrás. Con la colaboración de Pierre Arbús, un oficial de imprenta francés, inicia la investigación. Tendrá que tratar con personajes de todo tipo: maestros impresores, eruditos, delincuentes, nobles de alta cuna. Y todo bajo la sombra omnipresente de la Inquisición, que vela por controlar el pensamiento y la palabra, y la estricta censura de Felipe II. La crítica ha dicho... «Olalla García escribe desde un profundo conocimiento. La palabra fluida y una trama absorbente se imponen con facilidad.» Historia National Geographic

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Title: Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories: The sensational new work from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Author: Cho Nam-Joo

Narrator: Mei Mei Macleod

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.' The Observer  ‘A thought-provoking, nuanced read’ Sarah Manning, Red  'Dazzling prose' Elle   Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.   A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again.   Written in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over. And under Cho Nam-Joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny--not even herself.

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Title: You're the Earl That I Want

Author: Kelly Bowen

Narrator: Ashford Mcnab

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

THE EARL DOTH PROTEST . . . For businessman Heath Hextall, inheriting an earldom has been a damnable nuisance. The answer: find a well-bred, biddable woman to keep his life in order and observe the required social niceties. But it's always been clear that Lady Josephine Somerhall is not that woman. Once a shy slip of a girl, Joss is now brilliant, beautiful chaos in a ball gown. . . . BUT THE LADY KNOWS BEST In her heart, Joss has always loved Heath, the one person she's always been able to count on. That doesn't mean she wants to marry him though. Without a husband, Joss can do as she pleases-and now, it pleases her to solve the mystery of an encoded file given to Heath by a dying man. It's put Heath in peril once, and Joss won't let that happen again. She'll do what she must to ensure the earl's safety. And to remind him that what she lacks in convention, she makes up for in passion.

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Title: Her Little Flowers

Author: Shannon Morgan

Narrator: Siobhan Waring

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set in a haunted manor house in a picturesque English village, this debut novel is a modern-day ghost story filled with emotional complexity and family secrets. Will be irresistible for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton, and Shirley Jackson. Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine's companion since childhood. When Francine's estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings with her a story that threatens everything Francine has always believed. It is a tale of cruelty and desperation, of terror and unbearable heartache. And as Francine learns more about the darkness in her family's past—and the role she may have played in it—she realizes that confronting the truth may mean losing what she holds most dear. As moving and poignant as it is chilling, Her Little Flowers is a story of grief and enduring love—and of the haunting regrets only forgiveness can dispel.

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Title: The Lonesome Gun

Series: #7 of Perley Gates Western

Author: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Good Samaritan gunslinger Perley Gates returns for a new action-packed adventure from legendary national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone set in historic Texas. Perley's elder brother, Rubin, who manages the Triple-G Ranch decides to try breeding some Hereford cattle with the ranch's longhorns. He asks Perley to deliver the contract for the Herefords, a simple task. But nothing ever remains simple when Perley is involved. And for the reluctant fast gun, it means a nightmare journey through hell itself . . . The trouble starts when Perley and his sidekick, Possum, meet some damsels in distress—a lovely group of saloon girls with a broken wagon wheel. Being a good Samaritan, Perley feels honor-bound to help them. But when the travelers cross paths with an ornery gang of vicious outlaws, things turn deadly—and fast. It only gets worse from there, for Perley agrees to escort them to Nacogdoches—next to Angelina County, a section of which is infested with a special breed of vermin known as the Tarpley family. And this corrupt clan has a gunslinger—who'd love nothing more than to take down a living legend like Perley Gates . . .

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Title: On a Bright Hillside in Paradise: Winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize

Author: Annette Higgs

Narrator: Ainslie McGlynn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Release date: July 18, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard-scrabble lives. The drama begins when strangers arrive, Christian Brethren evangelists who hold big revival meetings in local barns. On a Bright Hillside in Paradise tackles big questions of faith and family but remains grounded in the dreams and strivings of its beautifully drawn characters. Higgs takes lives that history might have judged as small and imbues them with immense dignity and complex and compelling inner lives. Avoiding the myth of the 'frontier pioneer' On a Bright Hillside in Paradise instead shows how these convict descendants wanted nothing more than to retreat to the bush to heal from their trauma, developing a deep love of the landscape in the process. At its heart the novel is about a close-knit community, and home-making in the bush. Despite injuries, losses, deaths, and near-starvation the family survives.

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Title: A Good Rogue Is Hard to Find

Author: Kelly Bowen

Narrator: Ashford Mcnab

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

HE THOUGHT HE'D SEEN IT ALL . . . The rogue's life has been good to William Somerhall: He has his fortune, his racehorses, and his freedom. Then he moves in with his mother. It seems the eccentric Dowager Duchess of Worth has been barely skirting social disaster-assisted by one Miss Jenna Hughes, who is far too bright and beautiful to be wasting her youth as a paid companion. Now home to keep his mother from ruin, William intends to learn what's afoot by keeping his friends close-and the tempting Miss Hughes closer still. . . . UNTIL HE MEETS HER He's tall, dark, and damnably intelligent-unfortunately for Jenna. She and the duchess are in the 'redistribution business,' taking from the rich and giving to the poor, and it's going great - until he shows up. But even as William plots to make an honest woman out of her, Jenna will use all her wiles to reveal just how bad a rogue he can be . . .