Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: The French Admiral

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once proud city is in flames and near ruin. But on the horizon, the King's own fleet of heavily armed frigates heads full sail to blast through France's blockade. Aboard His Majesty's swift flagship DESPERATE, midshipman Alan Lewrie quickly sets his gunners to their lethal work, firing rapid broadsides of twenty-four pound shot at the enemy vessels. Cannon fire lights up the death-filled night as the fate of the King's Colonies hangs on the bravery of one young midshipman leading his ships into the fiery jaws of battle. 'Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Horatio Hornblower and now Alan Lewrie - the four new musketeers.' (Amazon.com)

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Title: The King's Coat

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The very first Alan Lewrie naval adventure in this classic series is now back in print! 1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding--rather unexpectedly--that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise. . . .

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Title: Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: Simon Jones

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 15

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Conspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance. On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly discovery sends fear rippling through a city already racked by unrest. A young slave boy has been felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, apparently as a human sacrifice. For Cicero, the ill omens of this hideous murder only increase his dangerous situation: elected leader by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival political camps. Caught in a shell game that leaves him forever putting out fires only to have them ignite elsewhere, Cicero plays for the future of the republic…and his life. There is a plot to assassinate him, abetted by a rising young star of the Roman senate named Gaius Julius Caesar—and it will take all the embattled consul’s wit, strength, and force of will to stop the plot and keep Rome from becoming a dictatorship.

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Title: The Wake of Forgiveness

Author: Bruce Machart

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 21, 2010

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This accomplished debut novel from Bruce Machart has drawn critical raves. In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth. Fifteen years later, guilt-stricken Karel puts his family's fortunes on the line in a horse race against a powerful Spanish patriarch. 'Machart's moving story unfolds lyrically and sensually, with little fanfare, as his thoughtful prose propels a character-driven story about family, morality, and redemption.'-Publishers Weekly

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Title: King of the Romans

Author: John Gorman

Narrator: Stuart Langton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 19, 2010

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When Clovis moves to conquer Gaul in AD 486, only the king of the Romans, Syagrius, has the courage to stand in his way. However, he pays a fearful price for his defiance; Shattered by a defeat that cost him his wife, his son, his city, and his army, Syagrius wanders through the collapsing world of a dying empire. He finds refuge with a procurator broken by his past, a centurion haunted by betrayal, and a priestess desperate for love—all too proud and too honorable to compromise with the corruption that threatens to destroy them.

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Title: Alice I Have Been: A Novel

Author: Melanie Benjamin

Narrator: Samantha Eggar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.” Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year–the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice–he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice’s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.  For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire.

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Title: Mr. American

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 24 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth.

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Title: Flashman and the Mountain of Light

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever.

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Title: Unfinished Desires: A Novel

Author: Gail Godwin

Narrator: Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel. Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried. In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations–and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.

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Title: The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Author: Wallace Stegner

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 38 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success takes him a little bit higher, and each valley sinks him lower than ever before—both financially and in his relationship with his family. Based largely on his own childhood, Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. It is the conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the frontier myth and of the American Dream that gives the book such resonance and power.