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Title: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Author: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 120 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The manuscript, named after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was rejected by publishers and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the 20th century's most influential writers is being released. Both a fascinating piece of American literary history and an engrossing, atmospheric novel, it brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.

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Title: Casca: God of Death: Casca Series #2

Author: Barry Sadler

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 116 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

He was cursed by Jesus on Golgotha, condemned to immortality and the life of a soldier, until the Second Coming. Galley slave and gladiator, warrior and vagabond, Casca travels the world living by his wits and skills as a fighting man. Waiting, knowing he cannot die, he fears discovery.

His travels take him north to the land of the Vikings and then west to the Toltecs. In Mexico atop a storm-shrouded pyramid, priests prepare to offer Casca in sacrifice. The knife plunges, but the man who cannot die rises from the altar. Reclaiming his still-beating heart, he proclaims himself the God of Death.

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Title: The Heretic's Daughter

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Kathleen Kent

Narrator: Mare Winningham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-08

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 418 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Kathleen Kent is a 10th generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She is also a natural-born storyteller, and in her first novel, she paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution

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Title: Christ the Lord

Subtitle: The Road to Cana

Author: Anne Rice

Narrator: James Naughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-08

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 166 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.

Critic Reviews:

"Rice undertakes a delicate balance: if it is possible to create a character that is simultaneously fully human and fully divine, as ancient Christian creeds assert, then Rice succeeds." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Jessica

Author: Bryce Courtenay

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-07

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 983 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nine months later, a baby is born...with Jessica determined to guard the secret of the father's identity. The rivalry of Jessica and her beautiful sister for the love of the same man will echo throughout their lives, until finally the truth must be told.

Set in the harsh Australian bush against the outbreak of World War I, this novel is heartbreaking in its innocence, and shattering in its brutality.

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Title: Hood

Subtitle: King Raven Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Stephen R. Lawhead

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-07

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 801 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne of Elfael, has abandoned his father's kingdom and fled to the greenwood. There, in the primeval forest of the Welsh borders, danger surrounds him, for this woodland is a living, breathing entity with mysterious powers and secrets, and Bran must find a way to make it his own if he is to survive.

Like the forest itself, Hood is deep, dark, and at times savagely brutal, yet full of enchantment and hope. Internationally acclaimed author Stephen R. Lawhead has created a lyrical rendering of a time-honored story that will lead you down strange pathways into another place and time.

Critic Reviews:

"A fun read that will leave readers anxious for the next installment." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Whistling Season

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-06

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 904 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A finalist for the National Book award, Ivan Doig, who has published 11 books, has been hailed as the "West's preeminent literary novelist" by the Denver Post.

Critic Reviews:

"The Whistling Season is a book to pass on to your favorite readers: a story of lives of active choice, lived actively." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Whitethorn

Author: Bryce Courtenay

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 685 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of The Power of One comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war, and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany. Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonely boy. Like the whitethorn, one of Africa's most enduring plants, Tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love.

©2005 Bryce Courtenay; (P)2005 Bolinda Publishing Pty. Ltd.

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Title: The Robe

Author: Lloyd C. Douglas

Narrator: Stuart Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 532 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe, a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity. Set against the vividly drawn background of ancient Rome, this is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption.

©1942 Lloyd C. Douglas; (P)2002 Blackstone Audiobooks

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Title: The Hot Kid

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Arliss Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 407 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Carl wants to be America's most famous lawman. He shot his first felon when he was 15-years-old. With a Winchester.

Louly Brown loves Carl but wants the world to think she is Pretty Boy Floyd's girlfriend.

Tony Antonelli of True Detective magazine wants to write like Richard Harding Davis and wishes cute little Elodie wasn't a whore. She and Heidi and the girls work at Teddy's in Kansas City, where anything goes and the girls wear, what else, teddies.

Jack Belmont wants to rob banks, become public enemy number one, and show his dad, an oil millionaire, he can make it on his own.

With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard, a true master, at his best.

Critic Reviews:

"The writing is pitch-perfect throughout....It's all pure Leonard, and that means it's pure terrific." (Publishers Weekly)

"As always, Leonard's prose seems effortless, his dialogue is perfect, and his humor is as dry as a moonshine martini....A terrific pleasure." (Booklist)

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