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Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Author: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrator: Lynne Thigpen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman has sold over a million copies nationwide since its publication in 1971, making the fictional character of Miss Jane so real many people don't know she exists only in the imagination of Louisiana-born author Ernest J. Gaines. Miss Jane is 100 years old when she is interviewed by an area high school teacher looking to teach his students more about plantation society in the deep South. Her story is not only a vivid picture of the South before the dawn of the civil rights era, but also a story of one woman's survival against overwhelming odds. A stunning autobiography of a courageous woman who won her battles with grace and dignity. Born a slave and freed when she was ten, Jane leaves the plantation of her childhood and heads in the direction of Ohio in search of a white abolitionist who once befriended her. Accompanied by Ned, a young orphan, Jane struggles to get out of Louisiana. What happens in the years that follow is a tale of loss and heartache and renewed hope, imprinted on its aged teller's face like furrows in a russet field. Now, in the racial upheavals of the '60s, Miss Jane brings closure to one generation, and inspiration to the next.

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Title: The Quick

Author: Lauren Owen

Narrator: Simon Slater

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 3, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick – But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy. In time, you will enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. And at some point – we cannot say when – these worlds will collide. It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors – and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.

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Title: Family Likeness

Author: Caitlin Davies

Narrator: Vivien Rochester, Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her. A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She’s convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional. And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown. In ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of war time secrets and the search for belonging...

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Title: The Love of a Lifetime: Historical Romance

Author: Mary Fitzgerald

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Can love survive the worst betrayal of all? From the moment Elizabeth Nugent arrives to live on his family’s farm in Shropshire, Richard Wilde is in love with her. And as they grow up, it seems like nothing can keep them apart. But as the Second World War rages, Richard is sent to fight in the jungles of Burma, leaving Elizabeth to deal with a terrible secret that could destroy his family. Despite the distance between them, though, Richard and Elizabeth’s love remains constant through war, tragedy and betrayal. But once the fighting is over, will the secrets and lies that Elizabeth has been hiding keep them apart for ever?

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Title: Hannibal: The Patrol: (Short Story)

Author: Ben Kane

Narrator: Michael Praed

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story. WINTER 218 BC In Cisalpine Gaul, a Carthaginian patrol is moving stealthily through thick woodland. It’s led by Hanno, one of Hannibal’s young officers, and his second-in-command Mutt. Famished and cold, they are making for a town full of the grain that they desperately need. But the local Gauls cannot be trusted; and although defeated, the Romans still have patrols in the area. With peril on every side and a deadly ambush ahead, there is no certainty that either Hanno or Mutt will survive ...

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Title: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

Author: Martyn Waites

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The fully authorised chilling sequel to Susan Hill's bestselling ghost-story, The Woman in Black, released in 2012 as a film featuring Daniel Radcliffe. This is the book the follow-up film starring Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Phoebe Fox will be based on. Autumn 1940, World War Two. Bombs are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain. The evacuations begin, and soon children are being taken to the country for safety. Teacher Eve Parkins is in charge of one such group. The children are scared and Eve does her best to calm them, but the truth is that she too is haunted by a personal tragedy she cannot put behind her. Their destination is Eel Marsh House. Desolate and forlorn, it is situated on a causeway and is sinking into the treacherous tidal marshes that surround it. Far from home and with no alternative, Eve and the children move in. But soon it becomes apparent that there is someone else in the house with them, someone Eve can't see but who is far more deadly than any number of German bombs ... The Woman in Black.

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Title: The Best of Daughters

Author: Dilly Court

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 23, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She is drawn to the suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are forced to move to the country and Daisy’s first duty is to her family. Here she becomes engaged to her childhood friend – a union both families have dreamed of. But, on the eve of their wedding, war is declared, and Daisy knows her life will never be the same again…

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Title: The Workhouse Girl

Author: Dilly Court

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah and her widowed mother to enter the notorious St Giles and St George’s Workhouse. When her mother dies in childbirth, the independent-minded Sarah falls foul of the workhouse master, Trigg and his cruel wife. Sarah’s ordeal seems to be over when a sugar mill owner takes her into his home. But her wealthy benefactor reports Trigg and his wife. And blaming Sarah for their misfortune, in a fit of revenge, the couple decide to take the law into their own hands.

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Title: Wake: A heartrending story of three women and the journey of the Unknown Warrior

Author: Anna Hope

Narrator: Anna Hope

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2014

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts. A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever

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Title: Cinderella Sister

Author: Dilly Court

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Release date: January 2, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lily Larkin is the youngest of six and the least important member of her family. With their father dead and their mother a stranger to them, she must stay at home and keep house whilst her elder siblings go out to work. As she goes about her daily chores, her head is full of dreams. And she longs for the day she can have a life of her own. When a fire threatens to destroy the nearby docks, Lily's act of kindness towards a handsome foreigner has disastrous consequences for the whole family. For shortly afterwards they are thrown out of their home and have no choice but to move into two mean rooms above the fire station where Lily's brothers work. Here the family struggles to make ends meet. But just when things might be looking up for them all, Lily makes a terrible error of judgement. In anger her eldest brother turns her from the door. Forced onto the streets, Lily wonders if she'll ever see her family again...