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Title: Tales from the Trail

Author: Louis L’amour

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'Grub Line Rider' Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight. When cattleman Jim Targ challenges Sartain's right to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow, Sartain decides he'll do better than ride through; he'll put down stakes there and homestead the land. Soon there's more at risk than land and pride when Targ hires a gunman to teach Sartain a permanent—and deadly—lesson. 'One Last Gun Notch' Morgan Clyde had been happy working his small ranch until he was driven off of it by a hired gunman. Clyde found odd jobs here and there but soon found himself being hired to use his gun. Now he's working for a land hog in Red Basin who wants a young homesteader and his wife driven off. The scenario is too familiar, and Clyde finds he must make a hard decision.

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Title: Louis L’Amour’s Desert Tales: “Law of the Desert” and “Desert Death Song”

Author: Louis L’amour

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2007

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

These two tales set in the wild desert pit the forces of fierce nature against the sturdy character of the Western man. 'Law of the Desert' Shad Marone is a lone gunman on the run from the law. He shot a man in a fair fight, but the man was the sheriff's brother, and Shad knows he'll never get a fair trial. He is being tracked by a man named Lopez, and after three days in the desert it looks like they'll both die of thirst—unless, of course, a miracle should happen. 'Desert Death Song' Nat Bodine had a choice: to die by hanging or take his chances in the desert. But when a good woman believes in a man, he finds the will to survive.

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Title: The Air We Breathe: A Novel

Author: Andrea Barrett

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2007

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the autumn of 1916, Americans are debating whether to enter the First World War. There are “preparedness parades,” and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, many of them recent immigrants from Europe, fill the sanatorium. Here, in the crisp air, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the inmates, including the newly arrived Leo Marburg, take solace in gossip, rumor, and secret attachments. An enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group. When his well-meaning efforts lead instead to tragedy and betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire, in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.

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Title: Black Gold

Author: Fred Bean

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Release date: May 15, 2007

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1930\'s Texas, the oil industry is booming and small-time wildcatter Bill Dodd has secretly acquired the oil lease to the property adjoining H.L. Hunt\'s latest gusher. It promises to make Dodd a millionaire but before he can register the leases with the county, he is gunned down and Hunt\'s company takes over the land.

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Title: Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle

Series: #1 of The Baroque Cycle

Author: Neal Stephenson

Narrator: Simon Preble, Stina Nielsen

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 2 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2004

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ''Half-Cocked Jack'' Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ... Performed by Simon Prebble and Stina Nielsen

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Title: Birds Without Wings

Author: Louis De Bernieres

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2004

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences. But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, the sweep of history has a cataclysmic effect on this peaceful place: The great love of Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim, a Muslim shepherd who courts her from near infancy, culminates in tragedy and madness; Two inseparable childhood friends who grow up playing in the hills above the town suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the bloody struggle; and Rustem Bey, a wealthy landlord, who has an enchanting mistress who is not what she seems. Far away from these small lives, a man of destiny who will come to be known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is emerging to create a country from the ruins of an empire. Victory at Gallipoli fails to save the Ottomans from ultimate defeat and, as a new conflict arises, Muslims and Christians struggle to survive, let alone understand, their part in the great tragedy that will reshape the whole region forever.

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Title: Gods and Generals

Series: #1 of Civil War Trilogy

Author: Jeff Shaara

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2003

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.64 of Total 44

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels   In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation.

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Title: The Glorious Cause

Series: #2 of The American Revolutionary War

Author: Jeff Shaara

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 59 minutes

Release date: July 12, 2002

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 35

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody battlefields of war. It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despite their spirit and stamina, the colonists were outmanned and outfought by the brazen British army. General George Washington found his troops trounced in the battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan and retreated toward Pennsylvania. With the future of the colonies at its lowest ebb, Washington made his most fateful decision: to cross the Delaware River and attack the enemy. The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown, a moment that changed the history of the world. The despair and triumph of America’s first great army is conveyed in scenes as powerful as any Shaara has written, a story told from the points of view of some of the most memorable characters in American history. There is George Washington, the charismatic leader who held his army together to achieve an unlikely victory; Charles Cornwallis, the no-nonsense British general, more than a match for his colonial counterpart; Nathaniel Greene, who rose from obscurity to become the finest battlefield commander in Washington’s army; The Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman who brought a soldier’s passion to America; and Benjamin Franklin, a brilliant man of science and philosophy who became the finest statesman of his day. From Nathan Hale to Benedict Arnold, William Howe to “Light Horse” Harry Lee, from Trenton and Valley Forge, Brandywine and Yorktown, the American Revolution’s most immortal characters and poignant moments are brought to life in remarkable Shaara style. Yet, The Glorious Cause is more than just a story of the legendary six-year struggle. It is a tribute to an amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free. Above all, it is a riveting novel that both expands and surpasses its beloved author’s best work.

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Title: The Wine-Dark Sea

Series: #16 of Aubrey and Maturin

Author: Patrick O'brian

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Release date: January 22, 2002

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean. The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited. 'The best chapter yet in the continuing saga of life in Nelson's navy.' (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: The Truelove

Series: #15 of Aubrey and Maturin

Author: Patrick O'brian

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Release date: October 9, 2001

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The 15th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series. This splendid installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely acclaimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Friendly Isles (Tonga) at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R.N., is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cabletier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a hightly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service. In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica on the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals