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Title: The Path of the King

Author: John Buchan

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The Path of the King offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman and French, Flemish, English, Scottish, and American social, economic, and political life. Famous events such as the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, the adventures of Daniel Boone, and much else provide the background for the men and women who successively have the blood of kingliness in them, however diluted. The subtly linked individual stories are used to suggest that kingliness may be dormant or fitful over several generations but will eventually reappear in someone, like Abraham Lincoln. All the leading characters are presented as descended from a young Viking prince whose death among the Franks as a defeated Northman is implied in the first episode. That princeling's golden torque is the symbol of his royal status, but it is remodeled as a ring, ultimately resurfacing in America only to be lost by young Abe Lincoln when he uses it to catch a fish in a 'crick.' But its loss is of no account, for when kingliness in fact reappears in Lincoln the man, there is no need for it.

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Title: Fort Pillow: A Novel of the Civil War

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: John Allen Nelson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 25, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was composed of almost 600 troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the colored Union troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused the Confederates of massacring the black troops after the fort fell, when fighting should have ceased. The 'Fort Pillow Massacre' became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to its conclusion. Harry Turtledove has written a dramatic re-creation of an astounding battle, telling a bloody story of courage and hope, freedom and hatred. With brilliant characterizations of all the main figures, this is a novel that reminds us that Fort Pillow was more than a battle—it was a clash of ideas between men fighting to define what being an American ought to mean.

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Title: David Copperfield

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 34 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 80

Ratings of Narrator: 4.74 of Total 27

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; the frivolous, enchanting Dora; and one of literature's great comic creations, the magnificently impecunious Mr. Micawber—a character resembling Dickens's own father. In David Copperfield—the novel he described as his 'favorite child'—Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

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Title: Give Me Back My Legions!: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the Emperor, Augustus Caesar. Given three legions and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine, his mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others have failed and to bring their land fully under Rome's control. Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army, gaining Roman citizenship and an officer's rank, and learning the arts of war and policy as practiced by the Romans. What he learns is essential for the survival of Germany, for he must unite his people against Rome before they become enslaved by the Empire and lose their way of life forever. An epic battle is brewing, and these two men stand on opposite sides of what will forever be known as the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest—a ferocious, bloody clash that will change the course of history.

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Title: The Jungle

Author: Upton Sinclair

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this powerful book, we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover the astonishing truth about 'packingtown,' the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where New World visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the 'muckraking' novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of 'wage slavery,' and the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, re-creates this startling chapter of our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion of political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important—and moving—works in the literature of social change.

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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: Richard Allen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 12 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the old man as his friend and mentor. When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands of people by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time.

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Title: Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Bronte

Narrator: Ruth Golding

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate -- yet thwarted -- love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

"There are nearly four millions of slaves in the United States; and the question now presents itself to every free born American citizen; what are we to do with them? The abolition party demand their immediate emancipation. Is it practicable, safe, or proper? What would be the consequences? What would be the consequence of turning loose upon ourselves four millions of human beings, to prowl about like wild beasts without restraint, or control, and commit depredations on the white population?" -Excerpted from "A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin," by A. Woodward, M.D., 1853.

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Title: A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Paul Adams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Charles Dickens takes us to the year 1775, where England and France are undergoing a period of social upheaval and turmoil. The forces that are leading to revolution in France are colliding with a circle of people in England, causing their destinies to be irrevocably intertwined.

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Title: Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Stewart Wills

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 59 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.68 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 9

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Herman Melville's classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of tremendous size and ferocity. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg and Ahab intends to take revenge. The first line-Call me Ishmael-is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. Moby-Dick is considered one of the greatest novels in the English language and has secured Melville's place among America's greatest writers.