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Title: The Emerald Comb

Author: Kathleen Mcgurl

Narrator: Sophie Roberts, David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'If you want a book that is exciting, fast-paced and impossible to put down, with plenty of twists and turns, then you need to buy this book! I can't wait to read more of Kathleen's novels.' – Emma's Book Reviews Some secrets are best left buried… Researching her family tree had been little more than a hobby – until Katie stepped onto Kingsley House’s sprawling, ivy-strewn drive. The house may be crumbling today, but it was once the intimidatingly opulent residence of the St Clairs, Katie’s ancestors. Arriving here two hundred years later, emotion stirs in Katie: a strange nostalgia for a place she’s never seen before… and when Kingsley House comes up for sale, Katie is determined that her family must buy it. Surrounded by the mysteries of the past, Katie’s pastime becomes a darker obsession, as she searches through history to trace her heritage. But she soon discovers that these walls house terrible secrets. And when forgotten stories and hidden betrayals come to light, the past seems more alive than Katie could ever have imagined. Moving between the 21st and 19th centuries, The Emerald Comb is a hauntingly evocative novel, perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore. Praise for Kathleen McGurl 'The Emerald Comb is fantastic.' – Books & Baby 'An edge of your seat read, that is a page turner and griped me from page one.' – Comet Babe's Books 'An engrossing family saga' – cayocosta72 on The Pearl Locket

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Title: Staring at the Sun

Author: Julian Barnes

Narrator: Alix Dunmore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides. © Julian Barnes 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Bullet For A Stranger

Series: #3 of Red Ryan

Author: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he’s in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn—and all roads lead to hell . . . 700 MILES OF MAYHEM Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they're about to learn—the hard way—that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They've been hired to escort a cowardly traitor facing an army court martial in New Orleans. Every hired killer in Texas wants him dead, including gun-handy Hannah Huckabee, a woman with a mysterious past and an agenda of her own. But she's just one of the dangers they'll face along the way. There are cutthroat gangs bent on slaughtering anything on two legs. And 700 miles of the deadliest terrain Red Ryan has ever had to shoot his way out of . . .

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Title: The Braver Thing

Author: Clifford Jackman

Narrator: Patrick Garrow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the acclaimed author of The Winter Family, a swash-buckling adventure from piracy's Golden Age and a deft political allegory for our troubled times. Treasure Island meets Lord of the Flies. In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed with Blackbeard, decides to pull together a 'Company of Gentleman of Fortune' for one last 'Adventuring Cruise' that will set them all up for life. All begins well: the pirates sail across the Atlantic and sack Cape Coast Castle, looting it of chests of gold ill-gotten from the slave trade. But before Kavanagh can lead them on, he sickens, unleashing a drastic series of power struggles among the company. As further victories transform them from the hunters to the hunted, the pirates descend into mutiny, show trials, assassination and tyranny as they flee from their pursuers and struggle against the seas. Full of epic sea battles and storms, peopled with characters worthy of Mutiny on the Bounty, Jackman's pirate voyage is also an object lesson in how political systems degrade as the pirates, who set out as a band of brothers, are powerless to prevent the erosion of the norms and values that hold their Company together. Where they end will shock you. But given our own times, it might not surprise you.

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Title: The Night Raids

Author: Jim Kelly

Narrator: Kris Dyer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. When the next day Nora's teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a munitions worker at Marshall's Airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation that meets the eye.

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Title: Not For Glory: A Historical Novel of Scotland

Series: #3 of Black Douglas Trilogy

Author: J.R. Tomlin

Narrator: Gary Furlong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way James can do so is by fire and the sword—the only language King Edward of England understands.

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Title: The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story

Author: Darin Strauss

Narrator: Darin Strauss, Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lucille Ball, Hollywood’s first true media mogul, stars in this “bold” (The Boston Globe), “boisterous novel” (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.”—Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nickel Boys This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol. The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss’s follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.

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Title: In the Shadow of the Beast

Series: #2 of Saga of Hasting the Avenger

Author: C.J. Adrien

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'Pagan ships have done much harm to the islands of Aquitaine. Some of them were entirely lost . . . a great chastening is upon them unlike any the ancient Christian world has ever seen.'—Alcuin of York, Letter to Arno King Horic is dead. The oaths that once bonded the Danes and Northmen in the islands of Aquitaine have broken. Hasting's new land is imperiled by fearsome challengers and old foes alike. A rumor from the continent will shatter the brittle veneer of his strength and expose his deepest wound from the past. His greatest trial will not be fought with a sword, ax, or shield, but with his heart. A supposed son of Ragnar Lodbrok, and referred to in the Gesta Normannorum as the Scourge of the Somme and Loire, his life exemplified the qualities of the ideal Viking. Join author and historian C. J. Adrien on an adventure that explores the early life and adventures of the Viking Hasting and his crew.

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Title: Pride of Lions

Author: Morgan Llywelyn

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. The Ireland of 1014 was a dream Brian Boru had dreamed and brought into being. Now, with all the fire and brilliance for which her writing is known, Morgan Llywelyn takes us there, to the battlefield where Brian died, and to Brian's fifteen-year-old son, Donough, whose mother is the voluptuous and treacherous Gormlaith, with her lust for life and power undiminished by age: Donough, the son who is determined to make the High Kingship of Brian Boru's Ireland his own. 'I know he's too young, but he's all we have left,' says Fergal, and thus the boy takes his first command, on the bloody ground of Clontarf. From there he must move to establish his right to rule in Kincora and to make the kings of Ireland accept him as their High King. Yet Donough is torn—torn by his hatred for his mother and by his all-consuming passion for the beautiful pagan girl Cera, who remains beyond his reach, for the High King must have a Christian consort . . .

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Title: The Straits of Treachery

Author: Richard Hopton

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Release date: August 13, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt preparations for the French invasion of the island have been repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered to investigate. Warne uncovers a shadowy underworld of spies, traitors and informers where nothing is quite as it seems and where danger lurks around every corner. If the long-threatened French invasion erupts will Sicily's defenders be prepared? ‘Swashbuckling, suspenseful and elegantly plotted' VANORA BENNETT 'A cracking story ... George Warne is a great addition to the roll-call of fictional soldier-heroes of the Napoleonic wars, from Sharpe of the Rifles to Hervey of the Light Dragoons. More please' DOMINICK DONALD