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Title: The Shortest Road

Series: #2 of Promised Wars

Author: David L. Robbins

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the second novel of David L. Robbins’ sweeping The Promised Wars series, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 flares off the page, depicting with human scope and historical scale the struggle for Israel’s existence. NY Times bestselling author David L. Robbins, called “the Homer of World War II,” creates a blazing and personal narrative of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. Viewed from multiple characters on all sides of the events, The Shortest Road depicts and explores the great conflict that resonates even today in the Middle East. Here is the fight for survival, the contest for land and freedom, and the tragedies of the warrior, the simple citizen, and the refugee—what the Palestinians have come to call the Nakba, the Catastrophe. The Shortest Road will deepen your understanding not only of this tumultuous place and time and of these complex peoples at war, but also the human capacity for love, sorrow, and struggle.

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Title: Inside the Last Kingdom: Three new Uhtred stories

Series: #13.5 of The Last Kingdom Series

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Matt Bates

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Release date: May 25, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The three Uhtred stories featured in this audio edition are also included in UHTRED’S FEAST, available to buy in hardback. Bernard Cornwell brings us three new stories of the iconic hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, showing us the man behind the shield – as a young boy, as Alfred's advisor, and as prince . It is a brand new chapter in the epic story of the Last Kingdom . . .

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Title: Dancing With Dusty Fossils

Series: #2 of York Detective Ladies' Agency Mysteries

Author: Karen Charlton

Narrator: Corrie James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

York, England: June 1940 While Jemma continues to search for her missing husband, the citizens of historic York are shocked by a series of vicious crimes at the city's two museums. A bungled break-in at the Yorkshire Museum is quickly followed by the brutal murder of Lance Richards, a sub-curator at the neighboring Castle Museum. The main suspect is Anthony Gill, a quiet and unprepossessing clerk. But Gill doesn't have an alibi and is uncooperative with the police. His desperate lawyer hires Jemma and Bobbie from Smoke & Cracked Mirrors to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, the two women are led a merry dance by Jodie, a famous and spirited actress, whose aristocrat husband wants evidence for a divorce. As the nation waits nervously to hear the fate of their sons and brothers trapped at Dunkirk, a twisting series of events whisk Jemma and Bobbie through the glamourous world of the starlet, down corridors of dusty fossils, and into terrifying danger. Vengeful passions and a dark crime lie beneath the civilized veneer of those elders who preserve our history. But if Anthony Gill didn't murder Lance Richards, who did—and why?

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Title: Twilight Sleep

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Carrington Macduffie

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Edith Wharton’s superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age was a critically praised bestseller when it was first published in 1927. Whether it is sex, drugs, or infatuation with the occult, Mrs. Manford and her extended family of socialites are determined to escape the pain, boredom, and emptiness of life through whatever form of “twilight sleep” they can devise or procure. Far ahead of its time, this Wharton classic employed modernist techniques such as an ever-changing narration among the novel’s characters and a close examination of the characters’ self-identities and relationships with one another to tell a tale rich with irony and wit about the upper crust’s own undoing.

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Title: Witch Wood

Author: John Buchan

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.

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Title: I am Ayah: The Way Home

Author: Donna Hill

Narrator: Bianca Drew

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Alessandra Fleming has spent most of her life running from her past. Her budding photography career, her life in Manhattan, all serve to distract from the secrets and guilt she's never been able to face. Then the call. Her estranged father is in the hospital . . . and Alessandra must return home to Sag Harbor, crumbling the first wall between her past and her present. For some, coming home is a relief. For Alessandra, it's a reminder of the family she's lost, of the time she'll never regain. But the answers—the secrets—of her family are hidden in the house, waiting for her. And the only one who may be able to help her uncover them is her father's neighbor, Zach, who brings with him an attraction that's intense and instantaneous. Now Alessandra is being pulled back not only into her own complex family history, but into the richly documented lives of four extraordinary women. Generations touched by tragedy and triumph, despair and hope. And it's in these aching echoes of the past that Alessandra's own story—her mistakes and her capacity to love—will take shape, guiding her to the life she's meant to live . . . and the extraordinary person she will become. Contains mature themes.

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Title: Legionary

Series: #8 of Legionary

Author: Gordon Doherty

Narrator: Adrian Hobart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east.... 376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders. The fates conspire to see Numerius Vitellius Pavo, enslaved as a boy after the death of his legionary father, thrust into the limitanei, the border legions, just before they are sent to recapture the long-lost eastern Kingdom of Bosporus. He is cast into the jaws of this plot, so twisted that the survival of the entire Roman world hangs in the balance....

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Title: [German] - Das Licht im Rücken (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Sandra Lüpkes

Narrator: Claudia Michelsen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Eine Erfindung erobert die Welt - und bestimmt das Schicksal zweier Familien, die bereit sind, alles zu riskieren Wetzlar, Optische Werke, Konstruktionsabteilung, 1914: Dem Tüftler Oskar Barnack gelingt der Durchbruch. Anstatt weiterhin mit einer kiloschweren Glasplattenkamera auf Foto-Safari zu gehen, hat der Feinmechaniker einen handlichen Apparat entwickelt, der in eine Jackentasche passt. Ernst Leitz, der Sohn des Werkgründers, erkennt das Potenzial - und treibt die Produktion der Leica gegen alle Widerstände voran. Die nächste Generation steht schon in den Startlöchern: Tochter Elsie hat das Zeug, die Firma zu übernehmen, aber die Brüder werden ihr vorgezogen. Als die Enteignung der Leitz-Werke durch die Nazis droht, bietet Elsie dem Unrechtssystem die Stirn - und gerät in die Fänge der Gestapo. Auch die Geschwister Dana und Milan stehen vor dem Nichts: Als Kinder eines jüdischen Ladenbesitzers ist ihnen ein Studium verwehrt, das von der Familie geführte 'Haus der Präsente' wird geplündert. Doch die inzwischen weltberühmte Leica öffnet ihnen neue Möglichkeiten ... Ein groß angelegter Gesellschafts- und Familienroman über die Revolution der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert - hervorragend recherchiert und packend erzählt.

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Title: [German] - Der Englische Löwe (ungekürzt)

Author: Mac P. Lorne

Narrator: Detlef Bierstedt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ausgezeichnet als 'Buch des Jahres' - Ritter, König und zu Lebzeiten schon eine Legende: Reiten Sie Seite an Seite mit dem Mann, den sie 'Löwenherz' nannten! In seinem historischen Roman lässt Mac P. Lorne mit Richard I. von England einen der berühmtesten Herrscher des Mittelalters lebendig werden. Nur wenig Zeit ist Richard Löwenherz in seiner Heimat England vergönnt: Nachdem er die Rebellion seines Bruders Johann Ohneland niedergeschlagen hat, bricht Richard mit einem kleinen Heer nach Frankreich auf. In der Normandie und Aquitanien hält der französische König Philipp II. Gebiete besetzt, die rechtens ihm gehören und die er von seinem Vater geerbt hat. Trotz zahlenmäßiger Unterlegenheit schlägt das Heer des englischen Löwen seine Gegner ein ums andere Mal, doch Richards Kriegskassen sind fast erschöpft. Schließlich stimmt er einem Waffenstillstand mit Philipp zu. Noch während sie ihr Siegel unter den Vertrag setzen, wissen beide Männer, dass es zwischen ihnen keinen Frieden geben kann ... Mac P. Lornes große Leidenschaft gilt der englischen Geschichte. Nachdem er bereits mehrere erfolgreiche historische Romane veröffentlicht hat - darunter die fünfbändige Robin-Hood-Reihe - hat er mit Richard Löwenherz nun einem der berühmtesten englischen Könige des Mittelalters ein Denkmal gesetzt und schildert auf bewegende Weise die Jahre des Königs nach seiner Rückkehr aus deutscher Gefangenschaft, an die sich andere Autoren bisher kaum heranwagten. 'Der Englische Löwe' wurde ausgezeichnet als 'Buch des Jahres 2020' von der Jury der histo-couch.de. _ + © 2022 by Audio-To-Go Publishing Ltd., Ireland. © Buchvorlage by Knaur Verlag, ein Imprint der Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur, München.

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Title: His Castilian Hawk

Series: #1 of The Castilian Saga

Author: Anna Belfrage

Narrator: Greg Patmore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For bastard-born Robert FitzStephan, being given Eleanor d’Outremer in marriage is an honor. For Eleanor, this forced wedding is anything but a fairy tale. Robert FitzStephan has served Edward Longshanks loyally since the age of twelve. Now he is riding with his king to once and for all bring Wales under English control. Eleanor d’Outremer—Noor to family—lost her Castilian mother as a child and is left entirely alone when her father and brother are killed. When ordered to wed the unknown Robert FitzStephan, she has no choice but to comply. Two strangers in a marriage bed is not easy. Things are further complicated by Noor’s blood-ties to the Welsh princes and by covetous Edith who has warmed Robert’s bed for years. Robert’s new wife may be young and innocent, but he is soon to discover that not only is she spirited and proud, she is also brave. Because when Wales lies gasping and Edward I exacts terrible justice on the last prince and his children, Noor is determined to save at least one member of the House of Aberffraw from the English king. Will years of ingrained service have Robert standing with his king or will he follow his heart and protect his wife, his beautiful and fierce Castilian hawk?