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Title: King Solomon’s Mines

Series: #1 of The Allan Quatermain Series

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Release date: May 13, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A bold elephant hunter journeys to an unknown land in search of fabled lost treasure. But terrible dangers threaten anyone who approaches the wonderful diamond mines of King Solomon. On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry’s younger brother, who vanished while seeking King Solomon’s legendary diamond mines in the African interior. By strange chance, Quatermain has a map to the mines, drawn in blood, and agrees to join the others on their perilous journey. The travelers face many dangers on their quest—the baking desert heat, freezing mountains, the hostile lost tribe they discover, and the evil “wise woman” who holds the secret of the diamond mines. King Solomon’s Mines is a brilliant work of adventure romance that has gripped readers for generations. This novel is an enduring favorite that is filled with qualities close to the human heart: the spirit of adventure and discovery, the desire for immortality, primal terror, and the search for the primitive. Few knew the Dark Continent as Haggard did; his experience of savage life and wild lands lends a visceral credibility that makes us believe the impossible. Yet beyond all this lies a feeling for the supernatural. Adventure alone was not enough for Haggard: “The thing must have a heart.”

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Title: The Black Tulip

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: May 13, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Alexandre Dumas’s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip, the real hero is no musketeer, but a flower. The novel, a deceptively simple story, is set in Holland in 1672 during the amazing tulipmania of the seventeenth century that brought wealth to some and ruin to many. The story weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a timeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.

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Title: Censoring an Iranian Love Story

Author: Shahriar Mandanipour

Narrator: Sunil Malhotra, Naila Azad

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. The novel entwines two equally powerful narratives. A writer named Shahriar—the author’s fictional alter ego—has struggled for years against the all-powerful censor at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Now, on the threshold of fifty, tired of writing dark and bitter stories, he has come to realize that the “world around us has enough death and destruction and sorrow.” He sets out instead to write a bewitching love story, one set in present-day Iran. It may be his greatest challenge yet. Beautiful black-haired Sara and fiercely proud Dara fall in love in the dusty stacks of the library, where they pass secret messages to each other encoded in the pages of their favorite books. But Iran’s Campaign Against Social Corruption forbids their being alone together. Defying the state and their disapproving parents, they meet in secret amid the bustling streets, Internet cafés, and lush private gardens of Tehran. Yet writing freely of Sara and Dara’s encounters, their desires, would put Shahriar in as much peril as his lovers. Thus we read not just the scenes Shahriar has written but also the sentences and words he’s crossed out or merely imagined, knowing they can never be published. Laced with surprising humor and irony, at once provocative and deeply moving, Censoring an Iranian Love Story takes us unforgettably to the heart of one of the world’s most alluring yet least understood cultures. It is an ingenious, wholly original novel—a literary tour de force that is a triumph of art and spirit.

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Title: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Series: #1 of Flavia de Luce

Author: Alan Bradley

Narrator: Jayne Entwistle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.99 of Total 76

Ratings of Narrator: 3.15 of Total 13

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950—and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.” To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse…. An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions—and a rich literary delight.

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Title: The History of Now

Author: Daniel Klein

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. The sixty-five-year-old projectionist at the local movie theater encounters an unexpected love affair. The town’s drama leader wrestles with self-doubt over a politically-correct play a New Yorker is pushing her to produce, while her teenaged daughter discovers long-lost black relatives living nearby. Laced through these episodes are stories that reach back to a seventeenth-century family in Rotterdam, an eighteenth-century migration by a farmer's lonely son, and a nineteenth-century underground railway journey by a gifted runaway slave. Each episode in Grandville’s history comes to bear on the lives of current residents. Does every event, no matter how small or distant in the past, influence all events that follow?

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Title: Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Author: Alice Randall

Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro-football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian émigré who also happens to be a lap dancer. For Windsor, this is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the source of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past. As she moves ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her son don’t add up to the beauty of the truth.

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Title: Letter Perfect

Series: #1 of California Historical

Author: Cathy Marie Hake

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Release date: April 17, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15

Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Cathy Marie Hake is author of over 30 Christian romances and has won many honors, including the Inspirational Readers Choice award. When good-natured but accident-prone Ruth Caldwell moves from the East to California, she finds adventure, love, and God's protection from peril. 'This was one of the most enjoyable books I have read in quite some time.'-Historical Romance Writers

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Title: The Long Knives Are Crying

Series: #2 of The Lakota Westerns Series

Author: Joseph M. Marshall

Narrator: Joseph M. Marshall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Release date: April 13, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III’s acclaimed Lakota Western series begins in 1875, as Sitting Bull gathers thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion. What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the days and weeks leading up to the conflict and the remarkable defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. Told for the first time from the Native perspective through the eyes of Lakota warrior Cloud, the story also weaves in the lesser-known but strategically important Battle of the Rosebud and the uncertain future that faced the Lakota following victory. Once again, Marshall infuses the story with his unique voice and eye for detail, creating a page-turning Western with a style of its own.

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Title: The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Series: #3 of The D'Artagnan Romances

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 57 minutes

Release date: April 2, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Dumas continues his Musketeer Romances with a final trilogy. The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de la Vallière and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. It is May 1660, and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Vallière. Meanwhile, d’Artagnan learns that his old comrades have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile. D’Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany. Never short on swashbuckling action, breathtaking suspense, and romantic intrigue, Dumas’s classic works are must-haves for any collection.

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Title: Song in a Strange Land

Series: #2 of The Liberty Bell Series

Author: Gilbert Morris

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Caught in the middle of the American Revolution against the English Crown, two families are divided by their loyalties. Dake Bradford, a blazing American patriot under the command of George Washington, has taken a stand against the British. Clive Gordon, a young physician and Dake’s first cousin, is the son of an English colonel who has sworn to put down the rebellion. Fanned by fires of patriotism, sides have been drawn, and there can be no turning back. These fiery loyalties break out into open conflict when the Bradfords and Gordons find themselves on opposing sides at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The conflict widens as both Dake and Clive court the affections of Jeanne Corbeau, a French beauty. Will the long, dangerous journey to Fort Ticonderoga decide their futures?