Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61454 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: To Distraction

Series: #5 of Bastion Club

Author: Stephanie Laurens

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Release date: March 20, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The gentlemen of the Bastion Club have proven their courage while fighting England's enemies, but nothing has prepared them for dealing with that most formidable of challenges: the opposite sex. Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need of a wife. Unmoved by the matchmaking “herd,” he seeks help from his aunt, who directs him to a lady she vows is perfect for him. Dispatched to a country house party to look the lady over, he discovers her not swanning about among the guests but with her nose buried in a book in the library. Phoebe Malleson is tempted to distraction by Deverell, but marrying him isn't part of her plan. Moved by an incident in her past, Phoebe has a secret cause to which she's committed. Unfortunately, telling Deverell to go away doesn't work, and he quickly learns of her secret. But someone powerful has her cause targeted for destruction—and her in their sights. Phoebe must accept Deverell's help … though the cost to them both might be dear—and deadly.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61370 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Honolulu

Author: Alan Brennert

Narrator: Ali Ahn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of the 'dazzling historical saga' (The Washington Post), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city   'In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents' feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. As for me, my parents named me Regret.'   Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young 'picture bride' who journeys to Hawai'i in 1914 in search of a better life.   Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it's the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu's tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands' history …   With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai'i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale off our women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.   “A sweeping, meticulously researched saga that sees it plucky heroine, a mistreated but independent-minded Korean mail-order bride, through the highs and lows of life in twentieth-century Hawai'i, this book extends our readers' tradition of favoring lush, flavorful historical novels.”—Elle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54910 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Twenty Years After

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 27 hours 54 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61209 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: A Fine Passion

Series: #4 of Bastion Club

Author: Stephanie Laurens

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 9, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The men of the Bastion Club are powerful, loyal, and not averse to overcoming danger if they must. Now, after years of loyal service to the Crown, they each—one by one—must face that greatest danger of all … love. The last of his line, Jack, Baron Warnefleet, has fled London after nearly being compromised into marrying a dreadful female. Turning his back on the entire notion of marriage, he rides home to the estate he has not seen for years, determined to set in motion an alternative course of action. But then in the lane before his gate, Jack rescues a startlingly beautiful lady from a menacing, unmanageable horse. However, while he begins by taking command, the lady continues by taking it back. Lady Clarice Altwood is no meek and mild miss. She is the very antithesis of the woolly-headed young ladies Jack has rejected as not for him. Clarice is delectably attractive, beyond eligible, undeniably capable, and completely unforgettable. Why on earth is she rusticating in the country? That enigma is compounded by mystery, and it's quickly clear that Clarice is in danger. Jack must use every ounce of his cunning and wit to protect this highly independent and richly passionate woman … who has so quickly stolen his heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59242 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Under the Northern Lights

Series: #2 of Alaskan Quest

Author: Tracie Peterson

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning author of more than 70 best-selling books, Tracie Peterson crafts an inspiring story of Arctic adventure and selfless love. Set amidst the savage beauty of 1915 Alaska, Under the Northern Lights is a compelling tale of abduction, despair, and hope. Hidden in Alaska's vast wilderness, a ruthless murderer holds two ladies hostage: one a newlywed, the other a detective. With Leah ravaged by despair and Helaina disabled by fever, the captives have little chance of escape-unless God provides the healing they so desperately need. Fearing for the safety of the women they love, Jayce and Jacob pray they can save Leah and Helaina before winter's icy blasts freeze all hope of rescue. Christina Moore's gripping narration helps listeners experience the bone-chilling fury of an Arctic blizzard, the paralyzing fear of evil's grip, and the comforting strength of God's presence. Listeners will also enjoy Summer of the Midnight Sun, the first book in the trilogy, weaving adventure, excitement, and highly charged emotional examples of Christian faith into a fully robust tale that never slows down . [Peterson] combines excellent writing, superb research, and fabulous adventure in an incredible frontier setting .'-Reviewers International Organization

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59121 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Lake in the Clouds

Series: #3 of Wilderness

Author: Sara Donati

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 24 hours 20 minutes

Release date: June 24, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 27

Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing. After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannah’s childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby. While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liam’s immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world. Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother’s people?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60271 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: A Lady of His Own

Series: #3 of Bastion Club

Author: Stephanie Laurens

Narrator: Jill Tanner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Stephanie Laurens' scandalous fiction is savored by romance addicts around the world who can't get enough of her dashing rakes and ravishing debutantes. This sultry addition to her New York Times best-selling Bastion Club series presents an unforgettable tale of rekindled love and unbridled passion. As betrayal and intrigue swirl around her, Lady Penelope finds herself inexorably drawn into the strong arms of the man she cannot resist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98313 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Silent Star

Author: Tracie Peterson

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Release date: March 11, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

CBA best-selling author and award-winning novelist, Tracie Peterson pens the tale of Andy Gilbert, a telegram delivery boy. During World War II, many of the young men of Haven, Pennsylvania are fighting in Europe. But still in town, Andy must find the strength to bring the news of the dead to their families. Through the compassion of an older widow and the love of God, Andy finds hope in the midst of devastation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60263 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Polish Officer: A Novel

Series: #3 of Night Soldiers

Author: Alan Furst

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence. Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances, all need not be lost. At a decimated cavalry stable under the droning of German bombers, Alexander is offered a choice: die in a last stand, or accept a new appointment—and discover a way to keep on fighting even in the face of defeat. His first mission: lead the final refugee train south from doomed Warsaw. With delicately wrought prose and a historian’s eye for detail, Alan Furst offers a powerful, emotionally challenging addition to his stellar catalogue.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59343 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The World at Night: A Novel

Series: #4 of Night Soldiers

Author: Alan Furst

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret service, this idealism gives him the courage to say yes. A simple mission, but it goes wrong, and Casson realizes he must gamble everything-his career, the woman he loves, life itself. Here is a brilliant re-creation of France-its spirit in the moment of defeat, its valor in the moment of rebirth.