Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: Target Switzerland: A Paul Muller Novel of Political Intrigue

Series: Part of The Paul Muller Novels

Author: William N. Walker

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by actual events, Target Switzerland is a gripping historical novel! The year is 1939 and Europe is hurtling toward war. Paul Muller is an intelligence agent trying to fend off threats from Germany, but also from Britain and France. Secret agreements reveal unexpected danger and new menacing entanglements as Switzerland becomes a target in the impending conflict. Muller uncovers plots and schemes to gain advantage by ruse and ploy—and violence. A compelling story of intrigue and deception as parties plot and scheme to defeat one another, the novel draws on a little-known historical fact in fashioning a taut and absorbing storyline. Diplomatic deception leads to high-stakes disputes and risky encounters as Muller confronts deadly spies, negotiates with corrupt arms dealers, and unravels subversive financial transactions. The atmosphere of doubt and fear will resonate with listeners watching the characters confront dangerous choices, unwitting actors on a path to war. Smoky meetings, shady deals, and political betrayal provide the background for an intense narrative.

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Title: The Macedonian

Series: #3 of The Privateers and Gentlemen Series

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets—secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship. Secrets are held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret which will be revealed once Favian breaks the enemy blockade in the Macedonian, a frigate stolen from his own government. Originally published as by “Jon Williams,” this is one of the historical novels, long out of print, with which Walter Jon Williams began his career.

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Title: The Broken Bow

Series: #2 of The Trusty Dawson, US Deputy Marshal Series

Author: Larry D. Sweazy

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Two-time Spur and Will Rogers Medallion Award–winning author Larry D. Sweazy returns with a bold new adventure in his trigger-happy Western series as US Marshal Sam “Trusty” Dawson finds himself targeted for vengeance with his face on a wanted poster. Now he’s up against every cutthroat gunslinger willing to put a bullet through his badge for the bounty … Theodore Marberry is a grieving father. He groomed his daughter Jessica to take her rightful place among the wealthy families of St. Louis high society. Instead she married a common lawman whose tin star and sixgun made him worthy of her affection. She lost her life bringing his child into the world. Although bestowed with a beautiful granddaughter, Marberry is consumed with hate towards the baby’s father. US Deputy Marshal Sam “Trusty” Dawson lives under a death sentence. His only crime was falling in love with a woman who saw more worth in his character than in his bank account. Now, every deadly manhunter, desperate bushwhacker, and vicious outlaw throughout the Dakota Territory is looking to put the lawman six feet under to collect $1,000 in silver. But there aren’t enough guns or bullets to stop Trusty from rescuing his daughter—and bringing Marberry to justice …

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Title: [Spanish] - No me digas que fue un sueño

Author: Linda Herz

Narrator: Sonia Couoh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Una conmovedora historia de amor en el marco de la Revolución maderista. Es un relato apasionante que recoge algunos de los hechos más importantes de la primera década del siglo XX de la historia de México.

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Title: The Legend of Fire Mountain

Series: #3 of The Fire Blossom Saga

Author: Sarah Lark

Narrator: Anthea Greco

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Bold new paths in life and love are forged in nineteenth-century New Zealand in the stirring final chapter of bestselling author Sarah Lark’s multigenerational Fire Blossom Saga. It’s 1880 in the North Island town of Otaki, where Aroha lives contentedly with her mother, Linda—until a fateful tragedy leaves Aroha traumatized and plagued by a cursed guilt. For the long recovery ahead, Aroha is sent to Rata Station, a thriving sheep farm that Aroha’s mother and grandmother once called home. Linda knows it’s the perfect place for her daughter to heal, find hope, and start a life she can call her own. On South Island, Aroha soon develops a bond with her relatives, who are looking toward the future, too. Aroha’s cousin March is a vivacious, business-minded beauty who wants to take advantage of New Zealand’s burgeoning industrial age. Robin is a delicate young man and an aspiring actor as fearful of his father’s disapproval as he is desperate to run from it. And then there’s Aroha, who sees unexpected opportunity in the growing tourism trade beyond the continental plains. Through personal trials, professional compromises, great love, profound loss, and a struggle to survive, Aroha, March, and Robin will discover their true destinies. A country is in flux, and a generation of ambitious and resilient young dreamers is changing with it in this exhilarating conclusion to an epic saga.

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Title: The Keeper of Happy Endings

Author: Barbara Davis

Narrator: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.95 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget. Decades later, while coping with her own tragic loss, aspiring gallery owner Rory Grant leases Soline’s old property and discovers a box containing letters and a vintage wedding dress, never worn. When Rory returns the mementos, an unlikely friendship develops, and eerie parallels in Rory’s and Soline’s lives begin to surface. It’s clear that they were destined to meet—and that Rory may hold the key to righting a forty-year wrong and opening the door to shared healing and, perhaps, a little magic.

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Title: Scorpion Orchid

Author: Lloyd Fernando

Narrator: Brendon Fernandez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An exciting first novel set in pre-independence Singapore. Scorpion Orchid follows the lives of four young men—a Malay, an Eurasian, a Chinese and a Tamil—against a backdrop of racial violence and political factions struggling for dominance. Excerpts from classical Malay and colonial English sources appear throughout the narrative, illuminating the roots and significance of this period in history. © 2011 by Estate of Lloyd Fernando. Introduction copyright © 2011 by Robert Yeo. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2020.

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Title: [Spanish] - La última luna. El amor secreto de Amado Nervo

Author: Guadalupe Loaeza, Pável Granados

Narrator: Ana Ragasol

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Release date: February 25, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Las cartas ficcionadas entre Amado Nervo y su hijastra Margarita revelan su amor platónico. Las emociones entre el poeta y la adolescente se ven intensificadas tras quedarse Margarita en México, mientras que Nervo, por mandato de Carranza, es enviado al extranjero como ministro en numerosas ocasiones. El libro consiste en diez cartas creadas a partir de la ficción entre Amado Nervo y su hija Margarita Dailliez, de quien se haría cargo una vez muerta la madre de quien fuera un gran amor para el poeta nayarita. Es también una serie epistolar de viajes, pues las cartas de Nervo se firman en distintas ciudades cosmopolitas del siglo XX.

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Title: [Spanish] - Marcello 1920

Author: Lina Rengifo Valencia

Narrator: Eduardo Cortés

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Release date: January 29, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Marcello, 1920 es un viaje oscuro a través del miedo, la angustia y el sufrimiento. A causa del fascismo de los años veinte en Italia, la ambición de una organización y los deseos de su familia, Marcello, un joven artista, se ve obligado a perder su identidad por ideales en los que nunca creyó. A través de sus memorias conocerás sus más profundas pasiones, sus incalculables tristezas y las prohibiciones que enfrentó en un camino que lo llevó a la obsesión por hacer de su vida una obra de arte.

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Title: [German] - Der Tag, an dem mein Großvater ein Held war

Author: Paulus Hochgatterer

Narrator: Valery Tscheplanowa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Release date: September 30, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Eine genial erzählte Geschichte über Menschlichkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte!Im Jahr 1944 tobt der Zweite Weltkrieg. Auf einem Bauernhof in Österreich taucht eines Tages das Flüchtlingsmädchen Nelli auf; traumatisiert, allein und ohne jegliche Erinnerung. Die Bauernfamilie Leithner nimmt die Jugendliche bei sich auf und versucht, ihr ein sicheres Zuhause zu bieten. Doch dann tritt ein weiterer Fremder in ihr Leben: ein junger Russe, dessen wertvollster Besitz ein geheimnisvolles Gemälde ist. Zwischen Nelli und ihm entspinnt sich eine Beziehung, aber bald droht der Krieg die Schicksalsgemeinschaft auf dem Hof einzuholen.-