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Title: Alice I Have Been

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Melanie Benjamin

Narrator: Samantha Eggar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-09

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 231 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?

Alice Liddell Hargreavess life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she's experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only Alice. Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories.

That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice's childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.

For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey.

A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire.

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Title: Cleopatra's Daughter

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Michelle Moran

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 466 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony's vengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. Their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two---the 10-year-old twins Selene and Alexander---survive the journey.

Delivered to the household of Octavian's sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian's family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts.

The fateful tale of Selene and Alexander is brought brilliantly to life in Cleopatra's Daughter. Recounted in Selene's youthful and engaging voice, it introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian's kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian's bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian's handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia's sardonic son and Marcellus's great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian's watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals.

Selene's narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place---the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. While coping with the loss of both her family and her ancestral kingdom, Selene must find a path around the dangers of a foreign land. Her accounts of life in Rome are filled with historical details that vividly capture both the glories and horrors of those times.

Critic Reviews:

"Dramatic, engrossing, and beautifully written." (Library Journal)

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Title: To Try Men's Souls

Subtitle: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom

Author: Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen

Narrator: Eric Conger, William Dufris, Callista Gingrich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-09

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 293 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The action focuses on one of the most iconic events in American history: Washington crossing the Delaware. Unlike the bold, courageous General in Emanuel Leutze's painting, Washington is full of doubt on the night of December 25, 1776. After five months of defeat, morale is dangerously low. Each morning muster shows that hundreds have deserted during the night.

While Washington prepares his weary troops for a sneak attack on Trenton, Thomas Paine is in Philadelphia, overseeing the printing of his newest pamphlet, The Crisis.

And Jonathan Van Dorn, the youngest son of a merchant from Trenton, is about to bring the war to his own doorstep. In the heat of battle, Jonathan must decide between staying loyal to the cause and sparing his brother, who has joined up with the British.

Through the thoughts and private fears of these three men, Gingrich and Forstchen illuminate the darkest days of the Revolution, from the retreat through New York to the fall of Fort Lee and the thrilling Battle of Trenton. With detailed research and an incredible depth of military insight, this novel provides a rare and personal perspective on the men who fought for and founded the United States of America.

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Title: The Tin Drum

Subtitle: A New Translation by Breon Mitchell

Author: Günter Grass

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 191 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best-seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's publishers all over the world, offer a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources. The result is a translation that is faithful to Grass's style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. After 50 years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance.

Critic Reviews:

This is a new translation of the classic novel, offered on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication.

"Grass is one of the master fabulists of our age." (

Times)

"

The Tin Drum itself remains a very great novel, as daring and imaginative as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's

One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's

Beloved." (

Washington Post)

"

The Tin Drum will become one of the enduring literary works of the twentieth century." (Swedish Academy, awarding Günter Grass the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999)

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Title: Death Before Wicket

Author: Kerry Greenwood

Narrator: Stephanie Daniel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 491 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney sojourn, but they begin to go awry when Phryne's maid discovers that her respectable sister Joan has left her family for the murky nightlife on the Cross...and then postponed again because Phyrne is definitely not the woman to say 'no' when two delightful young men are on their knees, begging for her help in finding their friend innocent of theft.

It all sounds simple enough as Phryne sets investigations into motion. But when greed and fear are the motivating factors, people become ruthless and Phyrne quickly finds herself enmeshed in blackmail, secrets, lies and the dangerous influences of deep magic.

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Title: EMPEROR: The Field of Swords, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Paul Blake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 364 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Julius Caesar has taken his legions north into mighty battles with the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his friendship with Marcus Brutus, brother-in-arms and fellow warrior. Although the conquest of Gaul has made Caesar a hero all over again, his victories on the battlefield cause still more rivalries at home. And ultimately Caesar and Brutus will have to choose whether to cross the Rubicon - together or singly - and to take the fight to Rome itself.

©2005 Conn Iggulden; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Title: The Kindly Ones

Author: Jonathan Littell

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-09

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 182 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad and at Auschwitz; and he lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin.

Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heyrich, Höss, and Hitler himself.

A supreme historical epic and a haunting work of fiction, Jonathan Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and utterly original. Published to impressive critical acclaim in France in 2006, it went on to win the Prix Goncourt, that country's most prestigious literary award, and sparked a broad range of responses and questions from readers: How does fiction deal with the nature of human evil? How should a novel encompass the Holocaust? At what point do history and fiction come together and where do they separate?

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Title: Friday's Child

Author: Georgette Heyer

Narrator: Eve Matheson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 598 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This story of mistaken love is a romantic fiction set in the English Regency period. It centers on Lord Sheringham who has been rejected by the woman he loves but the woman who has secretly loved him since childhood is waiting.

©1999 Georgette Heyer; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Title: The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

Author: Lauren Willig

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 314 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The much- anticipated fifth installment in the inventive and original Pink Carnation series.

©2009 Lauren Willig; (P)2009 Penguin Audiobooks

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Title: Song Yet Sung

Author: James McBride

Narrator: Leslie Uggams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 80 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.

©2008 James McBride; (P)2008 Penguin

Critic Reviews:

"Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist (The Color of Water) McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre - Civil War Maryland." (Publishers Weekly)

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