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Title: The Apothecary

Author: Maile Meloy

Narrator: Cristin Milioti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-11

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 223 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin's father is kidnapped, Janie and Benjamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecary's sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia, in order to find him, all while keeping it out of the hands of their enemies - Russian spies in possession of nuclear weapons. Discovering and testing potions they never believed could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the apothecary and prevent impending disaster.

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Title: Holy Warrior

Author: Angus Donald

Narrator: Graham Padden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 233 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Arrows will fly. Swords will swing. Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same.1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the cruel Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham, the Earl of Locksley - Robin Hood himself. With his band of loyal men at his side, Robin cuts a bloody swathe on the brutal journey east. Daring and dangerous, he can outwit and outlast any foe - but the crimson battlefields of the Holy Land are the ultimate proving ground.

And within Robin's camp lurks a traitor - a stealthy enemy determined to slay Christendom's greatest outlaw before the trumpets fade. Blazingly paced and richly imagined, featuring a cast of unforgettable characters and packed with fast, furious action, Holy Warrior is adventure at its thrilling, white-knuckle best.

Critic Reviews:

For Outlaw: "A lively and enjoyable book." (Daily Mail)

"A tale well told via the thoughts of a flawed hero not a read for the squeamish." (Nottinghamshire Today)

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Title: Stonehenge

Subtitle: 2000 B.C.

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Best-selling author Bernard Cornwell received national acclaim for the historical drama of his Civil War series, the Starbuck Chronicles, which includes Rebel, Copperhead, and Battle Flag. Now, in Stonehenge, he creates a dramatic saga of one of greatest wonders of the ancient world.

Four thousand years ago, three brothers grow up in a land that is now Britain. One becomes a warrior, ruthless in his pursuit of gold and power. One is a mystic who sees visions of the future and hears the gods speak to him. Between them stands Sagan, the gentle brother who will dedicate his life to building a temple he hopes will bring health and peace to the land. As the giant stones are moved into their sacred pattern, Bernard Cornwell draws the listener into the conflicts of brother against brother, men against gods. Narrator George Guidalls performance brings forth a world filled with the sights and sounds of bronze-age life.

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Title: Heart of a Samurai

Author: Margi Preus

Narrator: James Yaegashi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 75 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Praised as a timeless tale by Booklist in a starred review, this Newbery Honor book by Margi Preus explores the cultural divide between the East and West circa 1841. When Manjiro, a Japanese teenager, is thrown from his fishing boat during a storm, hes rescued by an American whaling ship. Befriending the ships captain, Manjiro decides to travel with the crew to Massachusetts. But years later, when Manjiro attempts to return to his homeland, hes imprisoned as an outsider.

Critic Reviews:

Preus mixes fact with fiction in a tale that is at once adventurous, heartwarming, sprawling, and nerve-racking ...." (

Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Star of the Sea

Author: Joseph O'Connor

Narrator: Peter Marinker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Winter 1847, the Star of the Sea sets sail from Ireland for New York. Among the refugees are a maidservant, bankrupt Lord Merridith, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads. Each is connected more deeply than they know.

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Title: Shoeless Joe

Author: W. P. Kinsella

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 196 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale of love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.

Shoeless Joe is the great Joe Jackson, one of the eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox who were banned from baseball for throwing the World Series. One day, while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears the voice of a baseball announcer saying, If you build it, he will come. He, of course, is Ray's hero, Joe Jackson. It is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.

Critic Reviews:

Wild...romantic...unconventional....A triumph of hope. (

Boston Globe)

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Title: Caleb's Crossing

Author: Geraldine Brooks

Narrator: Jennifer Ehle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-11

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 833 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times best seller People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.

In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At 12, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks' beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

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Title: Unsinkable

Subtitle: Titanic, Book 1

Author: Gordon Korman

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 191 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, theres plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophies mother is delivered to the ship by police - after she and Sophie have been arrested. Julianas father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness. And Alfie is hiding a secret that could get him kicked off the ship immediately. The lives of these four passengers will be forever linked with the fate of Titanic. And the farther they get from shore, the more the danger looms....

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Title: The Last Full Measure

Author: Jeff Shaara

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-11

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 152 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring best seller that has sold more than two million copies. In the best-selling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.

As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command - and turns the tide of war.

For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster - compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals - Longstreet, Hill, Stuart - and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.

Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero of Gettysburg - and who will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War.

Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant - complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing siege of Petersburg to Lee's epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure.

Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.

Critic Reviews:

The Last Full Measure is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters.... The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking.... In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for. (

Chicago Tribune)

Masterful... These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men. (

Baltimore Sun)

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Title: Great House

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Nicole Krauss

Narrator: Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Celeste Ciulla, Paul Hecht, Robert Ian Mackenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 282 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochets police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poets supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his familys study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.

Editorial Reviews:

In Great House, Nicole Krauss weaves together the stories of five different families, each of whom, at some point, owns or uses the same wooden desk. The desk is passed down, left behind, lost and found but its not the only thing the characters have in common: theyre also tied together by human threads of loss, disillusionment, grief, and passion. Five different narrators read alternate sections, giving voice to men and women whose lives intersect in very different ways.

The five short pieces All Rise, True Kindness, Swimming Holes, Lies Told by Children, and Weisz are narrated respectively by Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Robert McKenzie, Celeste Ciulla, and Paul Hecht. Each narrator puts his or her own style into the text: Cuervos thoughtful writer recollects her relationship with a poet who left the desk in her care; Guidalls sharply-voiced father pines for a relationship with his adult son; McKenzies elegant widower discovers a long-held secret about his dead wife and the desk she was so attached to; Ciulla describes her relationship with a pair of siblings under the control of a powerful parent; and Hecht gives life to a man on a lifelong quest to recreate the most important moment of his childhood. Every one of them brings individual pacing, tone, and emphasis to the main and secondary characters, turning the vignettes into a cohesive whole. Great House, which was just nominated for a National Book Award, isnt a plot-heavy novel, but Krauss writing is delicate and haunting, with a lyrical, poignant style that the narrators focus into emotional journeys through each characters past and present.

Critic Reviews:

"This stunning work showcases Krauss's consistent talent.... The sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow. (Publishers Weekly)

The most heartbreaking part of Great House, the third novel by Nicole Krauss, is having to finish itAs the mysteries of this beautifully written novel come spooling out, youll marvel at how profoundly one brilliantly crafted metaphor involving a mute wooden artifact can remind us what it means to be alive. (Rachel Rosenblit, Elle)

Krauss masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.... This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the authors first two books and bring her legions more. (Booklist, Starred Review)

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