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Title: Day of Tears

Subtitle: A Novel in Dialogue

Author: Julius Lester

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Sisi Aisha Johnson, John McDonough, Michael Early, Marc D. Johnson, Lizan Mitchell, Julia Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

As did his father before him, Pierce Butler treats his plantation slaves like family. But massive gambling debts force him to sell 429 family members. When the auction begins, torrential rain falls - not stopping until the final slave is sold the next day. The ominous rainfall prompts these words: This aint rain. This is Gods tears.

Based on the largest slave auction in U.S. history, this poignant montage is the fictionalized account of that 1859 Georgia tragedy. All the shrieks and groans, the betrayal and fury, the sorrow and regret are here in the stark, vivid monologues that pour from the souls of master and slave, auctioneer and observer during this Weeping Time.

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Title: The Agincourt Bride

Author: Joanna Hickson

Narrator: Catherine Harvey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 117 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The epic story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. Perfect for fans of Philipa Gregory.

Her beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured a king. Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty.

When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court. Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends Mettes lowly position.

But as Catherine approaches womanhood, her unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the dark and sinister, Duke of Burgundy will both use Catherine to further the cause of France. Catherine is powerless to stop them, but with the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt, the tables turn and suddenly her currency has never been higher. But can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?

Critic Reviews:

"The sense of period is terrific - filled with characters about whom I cared enormously." (Barbara Erskine)

"Superba real find." (The Bookseller)

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Title: Sword of Honor

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 95 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.

Though often somber, the Sword of Honour trilogy is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.

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Title: Flashman at the Charge

Subtitle: Flashman, Book 4

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 131 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The fourth volume of memoirs of Harry Flashman is presented here for the first time in audio. In this installment, Flash confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade.

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Title: A Dangerous Inheritance

Author: Alison Weir

Narrator: Maggie Mash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 151 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Historian and New York Times best-selling author Alison Weir is acclaimed for her absorbing works about the infamous House of York and House of Tudor lines. In A Dangerous Inheritance, Weir uses her wealth of knowledge to craft a compelling novel about two women, living 70 years apart, who are linked through the mysterious disappearance of King Richard III's nephews, Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury - also known as the Princes in the Tower.

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Title: Into the Free

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Julie Cantrell

Narrator: Luci Christian Bell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-12

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A simple girl with anything but a simple story. In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a nothing mama, she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her familys long-standing cycle of madness and abuse. Through it all, Millie experiences the thrill of first love while fighting to trust the God she believes has abandoned her. With the power of forgiveness, can Millie finally make her way into the free?

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Title: Desiree: The Bestselling Story of Napoleon's First Love

Author: Annemarie Selinko

Narrator: Nicole Quinn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-12

Publisher: BlueBarnProductions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 119 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

To be young, in France, and in love....

Fourteen-year-old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, the dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's daughter. She could not have known the twisting path her role in history would take, nearly breaking her vibrant heart but sweeping her to a life rich in passion and desire.

A love story, but so much more, Desiree explores the landscape of a young heart torn in two, giving listeners a compelling true story of an ordinary girl whose unlikely brush with history leads to a throne no one would have expected.

An epic best seller that has earned both critical acclaim and mass adoration, Desiree is at once a novel of the rise and fall of empires, the blush and fade of love, and the heart and soul of a woman.

Critic Reviews:

"An epic love story...irresistible reading." (

Chicago Tribune)

"This is a fascinating panorama, from the blood-and-sawdust reek of Robespierre's guillotine to the final collapse of the Hundred Days." (

New York Times)

Presented as a series of diary entries over the course of her eventful life, Désirée's story not only sheds light on the life of a fascinating woman but also captures in haunting detail some of the century's most extraordinary personalities. Quinn admirably captures Désirée's unique voice at each stage of her life, from teenage petulance and crushing heartbreak to the confident tones of her eventual rise to royalty in the heyday of Napoleon's reign. (

AudioFile)

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Title: The Prisoner of Heaven

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-12

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 381 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Internationally acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermin and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940's and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives.

Performed by Peter Kenny

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Title: King's Man

Author: Angus Donald

Narrator: Mike Rogers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 93 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Historys most dangerous outlaw.

Englands most famous ruler.

The years most exciting adventure.

The third crusade is over. Richard the Lion heart is bound for England. But with the princes of Europe united against him, can the greatest warrior in Christendom make it safely home?

The Lion is Chained. Captured. Bound. Imprisoned. King Richard's slim hope of salvation rests on one man - a former outlaw who scoffs at Holy Mother Church: Robin Hood. For King and country, Robin will risk all - from blood-soaked battlefields to deadly assassins - to see the Lion heart restored to his rightful throne.

From the internationally best-selling author of Outlaw and Holy Warrior comes a spectacular saga of courage and comradeship that brings the medieval world to roaring life.

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Title: Conqueror

Subtitle: A Novel of Kublai Khan

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 440 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The novels of Conn Iggulden bring the past to thrilling life, from ancient Rome to 13th-century Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Now he delivers the spectacular story of the rise of Genghis Khans grandson, a man destined to become one of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived - the legendary Kublai Khan.

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