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Title: American Front

Subtitle: The Great War, Book 1

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 218 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Hugo Award winner Harry Turtledove is the master of alternate history. In American Front he envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil. The United States and Germany clash with the Confederacy, France, and Britain as the machines of modern warfare litter the landscape with carnage. Meanwhile, oppressed southern blacks head toward a fateful confrontation.

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Title: Fall of Giants

Subtitle: The Century Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Dan Stevens

Format: Abridged

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-10

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 322 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic.

The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits.... Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House.... two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution.... Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London....

In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the 20th century, changing themselves - and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.

Critic Reviews:

"Action-packed with blood on the battlefield and conspiracies behind closed doors, Fall of Giants brings the nuances of each character to life and shifts easily from dirty coal mines to sparkling palaces. There is so much to love here, and the good news is the end is just the beginning: Fall of Giants is the first in a planned trilogy." (Amazon.com review)

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Title: City of Tranquil Light

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Bo Caldwell

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang Ping Cheng - City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love - and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?

Critic Reviews:

A remarkable evocation of another time and place as well as a deeply moving love story. (Ron Rash, author of

Serena)

City of Tranquil Light is a poem in prose form, and it will lift any readers spirit as it lifted mine. (Jay Parini, author of

The Last Station)

"Told through Will and Katherines alternating viewpoints, and inspired by the lives of the authors maternal grandparents,

City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. A deeply spiritual book, it shows how those who work to teach others often have the most to learn and is further evidence that Bo Caldwell writes vividly and with great historical perspective. (

San Jose Mercury News)

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Title: The Gates of Rome

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Robert Glenister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 191 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that created an empire to the betrayals that almost tore it apart, the Emperor novels tell the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all: Julius Caesar. The Gates of Romeintroduces an ambitious young man facing his first great test. In the city of Rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core. Citizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict - and Julius Caesar will be in the thick of the action. Dazzling in its imagination and storytelling, Gates of Rome is a masterpiece of historical fiction.

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Title: Empire

Subtitle: The Novel of Imperial Rome

Author: Steven Saylor

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-10

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 185 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Continuing the epic story begun in his <>i>New York Times best-selling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Romes empire.The Pinarii witness the machinations of Tiberius, the madness of Caligula, and the decadence of Nero. The deadly paranoia of Domitian gives way to the Golden Age of Trajan and Hadrian - but even the most enlightened emperors wield the power to destroy their subjects on a whim.

Empire is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire of 64 A.D, Neros persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novels heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. One becomes the plaything of the notorious Messalina. One becomes the lover of a Vestal virgin. One falls under the spell of Nero, while another is drawn to the strange new cult of those who call themselves Christians.

While the Pinarii struggle for survival, they also search for meaning. Some cling to the worship of the gods who made Rome great. Others explore the mysteries of astrology, follow the teachings of the wiseman Apollonius of Tyana, or celebrate the beautiful youth elevated by Hadrian to the status of a god.

However diverse their destinies, all the Pinarii are united by the mysterious gold talisman called the fascinum handed down from a time before Rome existed. As it passes from generation to generation, the fascinum seems to exercise a power not only over those who wear it, but over the very fate of the empire.

Critic Reviews:

"Saylor...vividly describes how the family survives the volcanic destruction of Pompeii, the burning of Rome, and the persecution of Jews and Christians." (

Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Claude & Camille

Subtitle: A Novel of Monet

Author: Stephanie Cowell

Narrator: Christopher Cazenove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 134 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the mid-19th century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical-supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father's will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the classical realism of the time, he set off for Paris.

But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Czanne, Pissarro, Manet - a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. But even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time.

His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet - and believed in his work - even as they lived in wretched rooms, were sometimes kicked out of those, and often suffered the indignities of destitution. She comforted him during his frequent emotional torments, even when he would leave her for long periods to go off on his own to paint in the countryside.

But Camille had her own demons - secrets that Monet could never penetrate, including one that, when eventually revealed, would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact. For though Camille never once stopped loving the painter with her entire being, she was not immune to the loneliness that often came with being his partner.

A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.

Critic Reviews:

"A convincing narrative about how masterpieces are created and a detailed portrait of a complex couple, Cowell's novel suggests that a fabulous, if flawed, love is the source of both the beauty and sadness of Monet's art." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The King's Privateer

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 256 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1783: His Majesty's secret agent

Fresh from war in the Americas, young navy veteran Alan Lewrie finds London pure pleasure. Then, at Plymouth he boards the trading ship Telesto, to find out why merchantmen are disappearing in the East Indies. Between the pungent shores of Calcutta and teaming Canton, Lewrie--reunited with his scoundrel father--discovers a young French captain, backed by an armada of Mindanaon pirates, on a plundering rampage. While treaties tie the navy's hands, a King's privateer is free to plunge into the fire and blood of a dirty little war on the high South China Sea.

Ladies' man, officer, and rogue, Alan Lewrie is the ultimate man of adventure. In the worthy tradition of Hornblower, Aubrey, and Maturin, his exploits echo with the sounds of crowded ports and the crash of naval warfare.

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Title: The King's Coat

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 424 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1780, and 17-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of naval discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding - rather unexpectedly - that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise.

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Title: The French Admiral

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 313 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1781: Held by the British, the Chesapeake Bay port of Yorktown is under siege. Pounded by the American forces on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once-proud city is aflame and near ruin. But on the horizon, the Royal Navy fleet, with heavily armed frigates, is poised to break through the French blockade. Aboard HMS Desperate, Midshipman Alan Lewrie sets his gunners to their lethal work firing broadsides of 24-pound shot at the enemy vessels.

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Title: Roses

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Leila Meacham

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-09

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 280 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families.

Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with the deceit, secrets, and tragedies of their choice and the loss of what might have been - not just for themselves but for their children, and children's children.

With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses covers a hundred years, three generations of Texans, and the explosive combination of passion for work and longing for love.

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