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Title: A Sweetness to the Soul

Author: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrator: Susan Denaker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Release date: August 11, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer sixteen years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own. Filled with heart-warming insight and glimpses of real-life pain, A Sweetness to the Soul paints a brilliant picture of love that conquers all obstacles and offers a powerful testimony to the miracle of God's healing power.

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Title: South of Broad

Author: Pat Conroy

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 2 minutes

Release date: August 11, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 40

Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.   Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.   Praise for South of Broad   “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”—The Washington Post   “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune   “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “A lovely, often thrilling story.”—The Dallas Morning News   “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy’s fans.”—Associated Press

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Title: Louise de La Vallière

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Release date: July 8, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Vallière, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with behind-the-scenes political intrigues and set against a tender love story, the novel brings the aging Musketeers out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. It is 1661, and King Louis XIV is strengthening France's military, preparing to undermine superintendent of finance Nicolas Fouquet at the behest of wily social-climber Jean-Baptiste Colbert. D'Artagnan has assumed command of the king's Musketeers while Aramis has risen to the top of the Jesuit order. Meanwhile, Porthos remains tied to the military, and the wealthy Athos is concerned with the affairs of his son, Raoul, who finds himself smitten with the lovely Louise de la Vallière. As always, Dumas brings French history to life with excitement and romance.

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Title: Into the Wilderness: A Novel

Series: #1 of Wilderness

Author: Sara Donati

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 30 hours 15 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 43

Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 20

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered—a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village—white, black, and Native American—Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with local slave owners. Much to her surprise, she clashes with her own father as well. Financially strapped, Judge Middleton has plans for his daughter—betrothal to local doctor Richard Todd. An alliance with Todd could extract her father from ruin but would call into question the ownership of Hidden Wolf, the mountain where Nathaniel, his father, and a small group of Native Americans live and hunt. As Judge Middleton brings pressure to bear against his daughter, she is faced with a choice between compliance and deception, a flight into the forest, and a desire that will bend her hard will to compromise and transformation. Elizabeth's ultimate destiny, here in the heart of the wilderness, lies in the odyssey to come: trials of faith and flesh, and passion born amid Nathaniel's own secrets and divided soul. Interweaving the fate of the remnants of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.

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Title: The Trumpet-Major

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 9, 2009

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against the larger-than-life backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, Hardy’s only historical novel tells of the loves and sorrows of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times. When an anticipated invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, young country maid Anne Garland is courted by three men in uniform: the loyal trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and cowardly Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry. Founded largely on testimony from elders known to Hardy in his childhood, The Trumpet-Major offers a complex weave of historical fact and fiction that explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desires on systematized versions of history.

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Title: The Branch and the Scaffold

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: Paul Hecht

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Legendary author Loren D. Estleman has built a distinguished career in both the Western and mystery genres. His historicalWesterns are instant classics, and The Branch and the Scaffold is another triumph. Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every aspect of his life.

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Title: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

Author: C.S. Lewis

Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 55

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

C. S. Lewis reworks the timeless myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction in this novel about the struggle between sacred and profane love. Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche’s unattractive and embittered older sister who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche’s fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery. Lewis’ last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics.

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Title: Shanghai Girls: A Novel

Series: #1 of Shanghai Girls

Author: Lisa See

Narrator: Janet Song

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 26, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 36

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules. At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls. Praise for Shanghai Girls “A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.”—Booklist “A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.”—Denver Post

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Title: The Secret Speech

Series: #2 of The Child 44 Trilogy

Author: Tom Rob Smith

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called 'brilliant' (Chicago Tribune), 'remarkable' (Newsweek) and 'sensational' (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . . The Secret Speech Soviet Union, 1956. Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is beginning to fracture-leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. A secret speech composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant. Its promise: The Soviet Union will change. Facing his own personal turmoil, former state security officer Leo Demidov is also struggling to change. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the death of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa, and their family are in grave danger from someone consumed by the dark legacy of Leo's past career. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance. From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest, The Secret Speech is a breathtaking, epic novel that confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors writing today.

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Title: The Ace: A Novel

Author: Jack D. Hunter

Narrator: Richard Powers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless US senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come.