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Title: The Kitchen House

Author: Kathleen Grissom

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A New York Times bestseller and word-of-mouth phenomenon, this is perfect for book-groups and fans of The Help and The Postmistress. ‘You must not become too friendly with them,’ she said. “They are not the same as us.’ ‘How?’ I asked. ‘How are they not the same?’ 1791: When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia’s skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white woman and the people she knows as kin…

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Title: His Dark Lady

Series: #2 of Shakespeare’s Mistress

Author: Victoria Lamb

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London, 1583. When young, aspiring playwright William Shakespeare encounters Lucy Morgan, one of Queen Elizabeth I’s ladies-in-waiting, the two fall passionately in love. He declares Lucy the inspiration for his work, but what secret is Will hiding from his muse? Meanwhile, Lucy has her own secret – and one that could destroy her world if exposed. No longer the chaste maid so valued by the Virgin Queen, she also bore witness to the clandestine wedding of Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley, a match forbidden by the monarch. England is in peril. Queen Elizabeth’s health is deteriorating, her throne under siege from Catholic plotters and threats of war with Spain. Faced with deciding the fate of her long-term prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, she needs a trusted circle of advisors around her now more than ever. But who can she turn to when those closest to her have proved disloyal? And how secure is Lucy’s position at court, now that she has learned the dangerous art of keeping secrets?

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Title: Village Teacher

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR? As Jack returns for his fourth year at Ragley-on-the Forest School, there's a definite chill in the air. Village schools are being closed down all over the place - will his be one of them?As school life continues - Vera, the school secretary, has to grapple with a new-fangled electric typewriter, Ruby celebrates ten years as the school cleaner, and the village panto throws up some unusual problems - Jack wonders what the future holds... 'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' Alan Titchmarsh

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Title: The Stranger I Married

Series: #2 of Historical Romance

Author: Sylvia Day

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the classic erotic romance novel, Sylvia Day's The Stranger I Married - a tale of love and awakened desire in Victorian England. Also by Sylvia Day: the sensational internationally bestselling Crossfire Series. They are London's most scandalous couple. Isabel, Lady Pelham, and Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson, are well matched in all things - lusty appetites, constant paramours, provocative reputations, and their absolute refusal to ruin a marriage of convenience by falling in love. It is a most agreeable sham - until a shocking event sends Gerard from her side. When, four years later, Gerard returns, the boyish rogue is now a powerful, irresistible man determined to seduce Isabel. He is not the man she married - but is he the one to finally steal her heart? Praise for Sylvia Day: 'Move over Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins, this is the dawn of a new Day' Amuse 'Several shades darker and a hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before' Reveal

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Title: Pride and Pleasure: Erotic Romance

Series: #3 of Historical Romance

Author: Sylvia Day

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Pride and Pleasure, the classic erotic romance - by the Number One international bestselling author of the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust. Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical scheming to get her to the altar. She won't be bullied, however, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. She needs a man to infiltrate her suitors and find the villain. Thief-taker Jasper Bond is entirely too devilish and too dangerous - who'd believe Eliza would be seduced by a man like him? But client satisfaction is a point of pride with Jasper and it's his pleasure to prove he's just the man - for all her needs. Praise for Sylvia Day: 'Move over Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins, this is the dawn of a new Day' Amuse 'Several shades darker and a hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before' Reveal

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Title: The Ever Open Door

Author: Glenice Crossland

Narrator: Maggie Mash

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Told with warmth and humour, The Ever Open Door is the story of a hard working, down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War and its aftermath. Burly steelworker Jim Butler and his wife Sally are quite content in their little house on Potters Row. Jim's only complaint is that Sally is too soft hearted for her own good, always at the beck and call of any neighbour, friend or even stranger. Sally, on the other hand, accuses Jim of being a soft touch for anyone after a drink or two at the Rising Sun. Both accept that neither will ever change and they love each other and their daughter Daisy deeply. Theirs is a close-knit family in a close-knit community where gossip - both good and bad - abounds and neighbour looks out for neighbour and friend for friend. And when Sally's generosity leads to an inheritance it should mean a change of life for the better, instead it brings danger and difficult choices for them all...

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Title: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Author: Ayana Mathis

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'The opening pages of Ayana's debut took my breath away. I can't remember when I read anything that moved me quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.' Oprah Winfrey Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia. Hattie’s is a tale of strength, of resilience and heartbreak that spans six decades. Her American dream is shattered time and again: a husband who lies and cheats and nine children raised in a cramped little house that was only ever supposed to be temporary. She keeps the children alive with sheer will and not an ounce of the affection they crave. She knows they don’t think her a kind woman — but how could they understand that all the love she had was used up in feeding them and clothing them. How do you prepare your children for a world you know is cruel? The lives of this unforgettable family form a searing portrait of twentieth century America. From the revivalist tents of Alabama to Vietnam, to the black middle-class enclave in the heart of the city, to a filthy bar in the ghetto, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is an extraordinary, distinctive novel about the guilt, sacrifice, responsibility and heartbreak that are an intrinsic part of ferocious love.

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Title: Beautiful Lies

Author: Clare Clark

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Release date: December 6, 2012

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the world. But her husband's outspoken views inspire enmity as well as admiration - and the wife of a member of parliament should not be hiding the kind of secrets Maribel has buried in her past. When a notorious newspaper editor begins to take an uncommon interest in her, Maribel fears he will destroy not only her husband's career but both of their reputations. Beautiful Lies is set in a Jubilee year that, fraught with economic uncertainty, riots and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own. Praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture', Clark has created a brilliant, riveting novel that illuminates both Victorian England and our own times.

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Title: A Mother's Secret

Author: Dilly Court

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, knowing she must keep the secret of her child's birth for ever. Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy's care to Biddy Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old woman's cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for...

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Title: The Cockney Angel

Author: Dilly Court

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2012

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy's addiction soon leads him into trouble. Despite having been brought up by her father to fear and distrust the police, Irene finds herself forced to collaborate with them to save her father from ruin. But Billy's errant ways finally catch up with him and he is imprisoned in Newgate jail. With her mother away from home, a desperate Irene has little choice but to seek help from Inspector Edward Kent - her sworn enemy. For only she can clear her father's name and unite the family once more ...