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Title: And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Dan Stevens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 118

Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 26

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie. #039;#039;Ten . . .#039;#039; Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious #039;#039;U. N. Owen.#039;#039; #039;#039;Nine . . .#039;#039; At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. #039;#039;Eight . . .#039;#039; Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die. #039;#039;Seven . . .#039;#039; Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

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Title: Shaman

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps. There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together. There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change. And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain. Shaman is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man#039;s journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.

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Title: The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire

Author: Linda Lafferty

Narrator: Suzanne Cypress

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Colorado Book Award winner, Historical Fiction. Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die… The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan—one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and unlike any other woman in the Islamic world. In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights, Esma seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness's true passion burns only for the Christian-born soldier charged with carrying out the brutal nightly death sentence: her drowning guard, Ivan Postivich. The Drowning Guard explores the riddle of Esma—who is at once a murderer and a champion and liberator of women—and the man who loves her in spite of her horrifying crimes. This textured historical novel, set in the opulence and squalor of Istanbul in 1826, is woven with the complexity and consequences of love.

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Title: The Arrangement

Series: #2 of Survivor#039;s Club

Author: Mary Balogh

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 50

Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 21

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh’s new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love. Desperate to escape his mother’s matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So when Miss Sophia Fry’s intervention on his behalf finds her unceremoniously booted from her guardian’s home, Vincent is compelled to act. He may have been blinded in battle, but he can see a solution to both their problems: marriage. At first, quiet, unassuming Sophia rejects Vincent’s proposal. But when such a gloriously handsome man persuades her that he needs a wife of his own choosing as much as she needs protection from destitution, she agrees. Her alternative is too dreadful to contemplate. But how can an all-consuming fire burn from such a cold arrangement? As friendship and camaraderie lead to sweet seduction and erotic pleasure, dare they believe a bargain born of desperation might lead them both to a love destined to be?

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Title: The Girl You Left Behind

Author: Jojo Moyes

Narrator: Penny Rawlins, Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 70

Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 19

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Look out for Jojo’s new book, Paris for One and Other Stories, available now. Another New York Times bestseller by the author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One—a spellbinding story of two women united in their fight for what they love most. Jojo Moyes’s word-of-mouth bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and struck a chord with a wide range of readers everywhere. Now, with The Girl You Left Behind, Moyes returns with another irresistible heartbreaker—a breathtaking story of love, loss, and sacrifice told with her signature ability to capture our hearts. Paris, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre must keep her family safe while her adored husband, Édouard, fights at the front. When their town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Sophie is forced to serve them every evening at her hotel. From the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie’s portrait—painted by her artist husband—a dangerous obsession is born, one that will lead Sophie to make a dark and terrible decision. Almost a century later, Sophie’s portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before his sudden death. After a chance encounter reveals the portrait’s true worth, a battle begins over its troubled history and Liv’s world is turned upside all over again.

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Title: Song of the Spirits

Series: #2 of In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga

Author: Sarah Lark

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Volume 2 in the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga Song of the Spirits continues the soaring saga begun with In the Land of the Long White Cloud, as the founding families of colonial New Zealand experience trials and triumphs of friendship, romance, and unforgettable adventure. Elaine O’Keefe is the radiant grand-daughter of Gwyneira McKenzie, who made her way to New Zealand to take a wealthy sheep baron’s hand in marriage in In the Land of the Long White Cloud. Elaine inherited not only her grandmother’s red hair but also her feisty spirit, big heart, and love of the land. When William Martyn, a handsome young Irishman of questionable integrity, walks into her life, she succumbs rapidly to his charms. Only to have her heart broken when her sensual half-Maori cousin Kura Warden arrives for a visit and draws William away. Though both young women must endure hardships and disappointments as they learn to live with the choices they make, each of them also discovers an inner resilience—and eventually finds love and happiness in new, unexpected places. Tested by the harsh realities of colonial life, both girls mature into spirited young women with a greater understanding of the challenges—and joys—of love, friendship, and family.

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Title: Snow Hunters: A Novel

Author: Paul Yoon

Narrator: Paul Yoon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past. “Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, a twenty-five-year-old North Korean POW refugee who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life in a port town on the coast of Brazil. Though he is a stranger in a strange land, throughout the years in this town, four people slip in and out of Yohan’s life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works, and who has his own secrets and a past he does not speak of; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia, a boy and a girl, who spend their days in the alleyways and the streets of the town. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must sift through the wreckage of his traumatic past so he might let go and move on. In Snow Hunters, “quotidian-surreal craft-master” (New York magazine) Paul Yoon proves love can dissolve loneliness; that hope can wipe away despair; and that a man who lost a country can find a new home. “The brief, simple sentences that form this elegant tone poem of a novel…have the effect of making you slow down to read them—which is a fitting way to experience the story of a man unmoored by memory and time” (Entertainment Weekly). This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and absolute tenderness.

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Title: The Purchase

Author: Linda Spalding

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family#039; s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly held belief that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in motion a twisted chain of events that will lead to tragedy and murder, forever changing his children#039; s lives and driving the book to an unexpected conclusion. A powerful novel of sacrifice and redemption set in a tiny community on the edge of the frontier, this spellbinding narrative unfolds around Daniel#039; s struggle to maintain his faith; his young wife, Ruth, who must find her own way; and Mary, the eldest child, who is bound to a runaway slave by a terrible secret. Darkly evocative, The Purchase is as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life. Its memorable characters, drawn with compassion and depth, are compellingly human, with lives that bring light to matters of loyalty and conscience.

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Title: Under a Texas Sky

Author: Dorothy Garlock

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she#039;s about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides into Dalton Barnes. He#039;s lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big city out-of-towners are gawking at the small-town locals like him. It doesn#039;t take long, though, for Anna and Dalton to discover fireworks of a different sort between them. But the movie is plagued by one trouble after another, including a fire that destroys an elaborate set and costumes ruined by huge splashes of paint. Who is sabotaging the film and why? To what lengths will they go? When Anna finds herself threatened, how will she and the love blossoming between her and Dalton survive?

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Title: Love and Lament: A Novel

Author: John Milliken Thompson

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family#039;s ex­traordinary hardships and misfortunes. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their county. As she comes of age during the South#039;s reconstruction and industrialization, she must learn to overcome her family#039;s curse: the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older brother, and her father#039;s growing insanity and rejection of God. In the rich tradition of Southern gothic literature, John Milliken Thompson transports the reader back in time through brilliant characterization and historical details to explore what it means to be a woman charting her own destiny in a rapidly evolving world dominated by men.