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Title: The Sugar Camp Quilt

Author: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-05

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 278 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

As the nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, has her life irrevocably changed. Dorothea Granger is asked by her uncle, shortly before his violent death, to stitch an unusual quilt. When she learns that the quilt contains hidden clues for the Underground Railroad, Dorothea makes a brave decision. She will put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost her uncle his life.

The Dallas Morning News hails the Elm Creek Quilt books as "classics of their kind", and this stirring historical yarn is another satisfying entry in the series.

Critic Reviews:

"Even a newcomer to the popular Elm Creek Quilts series will quickly get caught up in the lives of the ladies who stitch." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: White Gardenia

Author: Belinda Alexandra

Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 126 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the tradition of Paullina Simons comes an unforgettable story of a mother and daughter from a remarkable new writer. Beginning in a small village under Japanese occupation on the Chinese-Russian border in the final days of World War II, White Gardenia tells the story of a Russian mother and daughter separated by war. From the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harshness of the Siberian wasteland, from a desolate island in the South China Sea and to a new life in post-war Australia, and finally to Cold War Moscow, White Gardenia sweeps across cultures and continents.

©2002 Belinda Alexandra; (P)2003 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Critic Reviews:

"Deidre Rubenstein's well-modulated contralto voice brings empathy and compassion to Alexandra's first novel....Powerful dramatization." (AudioFile)

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Title: The French Lieutenant's Woman

Author: John Fowles

Narrator: Paul Shelley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-05

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 606 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

At Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a young Victorian amateur palaentologist, Charles Smithson, is struck by a solitary figure standing at the far end of the Cobb, staring out to sea. It is Sarah Woodruff, known to the locals as 'poor Tragedy' since her apparent liaison with a French sailor who has since deserted her. Although Charles is already engaged to a young heiress, he is immediately beguiled and eventually infatuated with Sarah.

©1969 John Fowles;

Critic Reviews:

"Paul Shelley's subtle presentation does full justice to Fowles' artful, mysterious tale....Never once does he lose the listener as the author moves between the past and present, commenting on Victorian customs, politics, and morays. And never once does he give away the novel's surprise ending. Enthusiastically recommended." (AudioFile)

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Title: A Thread of Grace

Author: Mary Doria Russell

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 281 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against this dramatic background, Russell traces the lives of a handful of fascinating characters, a charismatic Italian resistance leader, a Catholic priest, an Italian rabbi's family, and a disillusioned German doctor, telling the little-known but true story of the Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the war.

Critic Reviews:

"An expansive, well-researched, and compelling novel." (Booklist)

"The action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected historical detail. The intensity and intimacy of Russell's storytelling, her sharp character writing and fierce sense of humor bring fresh immediacy to this riveting WWII saga." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Fire by Night

Author: Lynn Austin

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-05

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 543 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Julia, a wealthy Philadelphia socialite is forced to overcome great obstacles and look for deeper meaning in her life when her intended describes her as shallow. Despite social restrictions on single women, she pursues a vocation as a battlefield nurse. Julia finds a kindred spirit in Phoebe, a West Virginia farm girl who dresses in men's clothing in order to be a soldier. Strength of character, determination, and faith foster their transformation into womanhood.

Winner of Library Journal's Best Christian Fiction Award for 2003, this novel portrays wholesome values. Christina Moore gives a warm narration of this well-crafted story.

Critic Reviews:

"Refreshing, atypical heroines in absorbing parallel plots." (Library Journal)

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Title: 21

Subtitle: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-05

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 393 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When O'Brian passed away in 2000, he left behind three chapters of what was to be the 21st Aubrey-Maturin novel. The tale was to have followed Jack Aubrey in his new post, Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron. Showing his storytelling gift until the end, O'Brian did include a duel between Aubrey's trusted friend Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer.

Although it remains unfinished, 21 gives us one final glance at the unparalleled genius of a master craftsman and the series The New York Times Book Review hailed as "the best historical novels ever written".

Critic Reviews:

"For Aubrey/Maturin addicts, there could be no better gift: a new, albeit incomplete, story with freshly piquant details, wry humor and salty nautical action." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Magna Charta

Author: James Daugherty

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-27-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 101 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Here is the story of three true men, Stephen Langton, Williams Marshall, and Hubert de Burgh, whose heroic deeds are set against those of the ever deceitful and crafty King John.

James Daugherty's narrative is divided into four parts, the first three describing the intriguing development of the Magna Charta itself. The fourth part is titled "Children of the Magna Charta" and subtitled "Milestones that have marked the long road from Magna Charta". In it he describes the rise of other movements that harkened back to the Magna Charta in their claims for freedom and self rule, including the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the covenant of the League of Nations, the Atlantic Charter, the Charter of the Organization of the American States, and the United Nations Charter.

Newbery Award-winning author James Daugherty gives us the dramatic and sweeping account of this pageantry of history through his inimitable style. This audio edition is sure to thrill and enlighten a new generation of readers.

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Title: Arch of Triumph

Author: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 90 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Forbidden to return to his own country and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on, all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times.

Critic Reviews:

"A great writer....[Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend his language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Title: Echoes

Author: Danielle Steel

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-04

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 185 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

As family and friends are swept away without a trace, Amadea is forced into hiding. Thus begins a harrowing journey of survival, first in the Nazi death camps and then as she escapes into the heart of the French resistance and finds a renewed sense of purpose. In the darkest moments of fear, Amadea will feel her mother's loving strength as the voices of lost loved ones echo powerfully in her heart. Amadea will meet an extraordinary man, British secret agent Rupert Montgomery, who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations...between her lost family and her future.

From the elegant rituals of Europe's prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of Germany's death camps, Danielle Steel draws us into a vanished world, weaving an intricate tapestry of a mother's love, a daughter's courage, and the unwavering faith that sustained them, even in history's darkest hour.

Bonus Feature: Fine Things by Danielle Steel, narrated by Richard Thomas

When Bernie Fine met 5-year-old Jane O'Reilly and her mother, Liz, he thought he had found love to last a lifetime. But when Liz is stricken with cancer shortly after the birth of their first child, time becomes painfully short. Bernie meets his fate with courage and humor, and learns some of life's hard but precious lessons as he does.

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Title: Dreaming the Eagle

Author: Manda Scott

Narrator: Josephine Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 101 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 33 A.D., the 11-year-old Breaca (later Boudica, or "Bringer of Victory") longs to become a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but, having killed her mother's killer, has proven herself a warrior. Dreaming the Eagle sweeps from the turmoil of battle to the intimacy of Boudica's loving relationship with her brother, Ban; from the fight for honor to the magic of an animistic natural world that speaks back to the Celtic tribes.

Critic Reviews:

"Imaginative." (Booklist)

"A truly remarkable story full of wonderful atmosphere....Intensely exciting, a tale of passion, courage, and heroism against huge odds, which is intensely moving." (Publishing News)

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