Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: The Broken Gun

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers’ ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery—but it turns out that his host isn’t a fan of books, writers, or people who don’t mind their own business. Soon Dan is living the dangers of the Old West firsthand—tracked through the savage wilderness by vicious killers straight out of the most violent pages of his stories. However, his enemies have made one serious mistake: Sheridan is no pencil-pushing greenhorn, and killing him won’t be as easy as they think.

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Title: Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel

Author: Susan Vreeland

Narrator: Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 11, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color. It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows, which he hopes will honor his family business and earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division. Publicly unrecognized by Tiffany, Clara conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which he is long remembered. Clara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman, which ultimately force her to protest against the company she has worked so hard to cultivate. She also yearns for love and companionship, and is devoted in different ways to five men, including Tiffany, who enforces to a strict policy: he does not hire married women, and any who do marry while under his employ must resign immediately. Eventually, like many women, Clara must decide what makes her happiest—the professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart.

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Title: Saints

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 50 minutes

Release date: January 6, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This is an epic of independence and devotion, of hardship and fulfillment, of a woman so strong that knowing her could change your life. When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. “Soon,” he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter’s certainty that the only person Dinah could ever really trust was herself. From that day forward, Dinah worked to support her family, remaining devoted to their welfare even in the face of despair and grinding poverty. Then one day she heard a new message; a new purpose ignited in her heart, and new life opened up before her.

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Title: Kingdom of Shadows

Author: Alan Furst

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe.

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Title: Charleston

Author: John Jakes

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 16

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells -- saints and evil-doers mingled in one unforgettable family -- from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into our country's history as only he can, Jakes paints a powerful portrait of the Charleston aristocracy who zealously guarded their privilege and position, harboring dark family secrets that threatened to destroy them all. Sweeping from the bitterly divided Carolina frontier of the 1770s through the tragic destruction of the city during the Civil War, Charleston represents America's premier storyteller at his very best.

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Title: Blood of Victory

Author: Alan Furst

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black Sea, Beirut, and, finally, Belgrade; his task is to attack the oil barges that fuel German tanks and airplanes. Blood of Victory has all the heart-pounding suspense, extraordinary historical accuracy, and narrative immediacy we have come to expect from Alan Furst.

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Title: The White Queen

Series: #2 of Cousins' War

Author: Philippa Gregory

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 108

Ratings of Narrator: 4.53 of Total 34

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history forever. Elizabeth Woodville is a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition. Her mother is Jacquetta, also known as the mystical lady of the rivers, and she is even more determined to bring power and wealth to the family line. While riding in the woods one day, Elizabeth captures the attentions of the newly crowned King Edward IV and, despite her common upbringing, marries him in secret. When she is raised up to be his queen, the English court is outraged, but Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for her family’s dominance. Yet despite her best efforts, and even with the help of her mother’s powers, her two sons become pawns in a famous unsolved mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the lost princes in the Tower of London. In this dazzling account of the deadly Wars of the Roses, brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize: the throne of England.

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Title: A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most popular and dramatic stories. It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens’s most exciting books—a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine (“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”), the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickens’s lively comedy. With an Introduction by Simon Schama

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Title: Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”

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Title: Brewster’s Millions

Author: George Barr McCutcheon

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless if it meant you would then be given many more millions? That's poor Monty Brewster's dilemma in this charming tale. Just as poor Monty Brewster, twice heir to a fortune, is beginning to adjust to his cold and distant grandfather's 'paltry' million-dollar bequest, an even more mysterious benefactor emerges offering to leave him some 'real' wealth. All he has to do is be penniless at nine o'clock on the morning of his twenty-sixth birthday. It seems like an easy task, but Monty discovers that it is no simple matter to divest oneself of a million dollars, especially as the bank insists on paying him $19,607.84 in interest per day. And what can you do when each ridiculous 'sure-loss' suddenly skyrockets when you invest in it? Money seems to flow in faster than a person can throw it overboard. And then there are Peggy and Barbara; how are they going to react to each attempt to squander a fortune? Can Monty keep the girl while losing the money? First published in 1902 under the pseudonym Richard P. Greaves, Brewster's Millions was one of George Barr McCutcheon's most successful titles. The prolific author was noted for his ability to write page-turners, full of vivid characters and with an attention to detail. There have, in fact, been six movie versions of this one book, most recently starring Richard Pryor and John Candy. That is vivid testament to a great story well told.