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Title: Refuge: A Novel

Author: Dot Jackson

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Release date: January 7, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand-new Auburn Phaeton automobile, leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind. It is the beginning of a journey of enlightenment that leads Mary “Sen” to the mountains and mysteries of Appalachia, where she will learn unexpected family secrets, create a new life for herself and her children, and finally experience love and happiness before tragedy will once again test her. Written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated author, Dot Jackson has spun a story that will captivate readers looking for an entertaining saga of self-discovery, family, love, loss, and redemption.

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Title: Vivaldi’s Virgins: A Novel

Author: Barbara Quick

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Rich in history, color, and imagination, a remarkable novel that pairs the seductive lost world of a creative legend with the coming of age of a young girl guided by an artistry all her own In Barbara Quick’s luminous novel, eighteenth-century Venice comes to life in all its splendor and decadence. The Grand Inquisitor’s spies lurk everywhere, and yet the city’s inhabitants abandon themselves to the revelry and masques of Carnival for half the year. This is the world as seen beyond the barred windows of her cloister by fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the orphan musicians of the Ospedale della Pietà, where Antonio Vivaldi is resident priest and composer. Anna Maria is inspired to ever greater musical achievement by Vivaldi, who is as famous for his flouting of the rules as for his flaming red hair. Both the adolescent Anna Maria, writing letters to her unknown mother—and her older self, looking back—unfold the tale of her personal and artistic awakening. Extraordinary musical talent, determination, and not-always-trustworthy friends allow Anna Maria to discover Venice in all its danger and glory, from the palaces of the elite to the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish ghetto. The story penetrates the heart of what it means to be a musician, as well as what it means to long for love.

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Title: The Unquiet Bones

Series: #1 of The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon

Author: Mel Starr

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Release date: December 24, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

First in the medieval whodunnit series set in Bampton, Oxfordshire, during the plague years and featuring a newly qualified surgeon Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions, and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

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Title: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Part II: The Seed of Banquo

Author: Noah Lukeman

Narrator: Michael Donaldson, Stefanie Resnick, Baile De Lacey, Rafael Jordan, Lauren Hayden, Nate Rubin, Benjamin Curns, Noah Lukeman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

“An audacious achievement.” --Jennifer Lee Carrell, Ph.D. (Harvard) New York Times Bestselling author of Interred With Their Bones/The Shakespeare Secret “Lukeman’s sequel to the Scottish play succeeds as both a fascinating literary exercise and an entertaining play in its own right….[A] poetic, well-paced drama.” —Booklist Recommended Reading, New York Magazine Fall Preview In 1610, The Tragedy of Macbeth was first performed. 400 years later: the sequel, written as a five-act play in blank verse. Ten years king, Malcolm sits on an uneasy throne. If Malcolm’s mind is haunted by the ghosts of his royal father (“gracious Duncan”) as well as the thane and lady who so bloodily betrayed him, Malcolm’s soul is sickened, as was Macbeth’s, by the witches’ prophecy that from Banquo’s seed would spring a line of Scottish kings: a prophecy that remained unfulfilled at the end of Shakespeare’s play. The witches also taunt Malcolm with riddles all his own: that sorrows will visit him from Ireland (where his younger brother fled upon their father’s death); that his love for Macbeth will breed fresh treachery. True to the Shakespearean model, its devious plot unfolding in five acts and its speech set to the measure of blank verse, Macbeth, Part II, draws bold the tragedy of a powerful man undone by the terrors he imagines and the truths he fails to see. 'Noah Lukeman's bold sequel to Macbeth, written in blank verse, is a fierce, memory-ridden love letter to Shakespeare, and an enthralling reminder that, in our imagination, Shakespeare's greatest plays have no end.' --Nigel Cliff, author of The Shakespeare Riots “Lukeman did a top-notch job creating a fresh play in the style of Shakespeare. The story moves quite briskly, and takes quite a few intriguing twists....The rhythm of the words and the drama of the story would make for quite a suspenseful and entertaining show.” —Fashionista Piranha “Lukeman truly has mastered the Shakespearian art and created a play that can stand as a sequel to the great Shakespearian play.” —A.M. Perez, Amanda's Weekly Zen

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Title: Versailles

Author: Kathryn Davis

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A fictionalized account of the life of Marie Antoinette follows her through such challenges as her early marriage to the future King Louis XVI, struggles with the expectations of her station, painful palace betrayals and politics, and interactions with such figures as Mirabeau, Du Barry, and Robespierre.

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Title: The Beast of Beswick

Series: #1 of The Regency Rogues

Author: Amalie Howard

Narrator: Nina Nato

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable Duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world—especially smart-mouthed harpies (with lips better suited to kissing than speaking) who brave his castle with indecent proposals. But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself. And by offer, she means what no highborn lady of sound and sensible mind would ever dream of—a tender of marriage with her as his bride.

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Title: High Adventure

Author: James Norman Hall

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2017

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For pilots in the First World War even getting through training was a matter of survival. Ashamed that the US was not yet in the war, American author James Norman Hall volunteered to fly for an American unit that fought for France, and his account was published while he was held captive in a German POW camp. An intersting character, Hall takes us through the terrifying early days of training through the even more terrifying days of being a pilot, making ‘High Adventure’ (1918) one of the best books on the subject. James Norman Hall is best known for writing the Bounty Trilogy with former pilot Charles Nordhoff, the 1935 film adaptation of which starred Clark Gable. - James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American author and a World War I pilot. He settled down in Tahiti after the war, and wrote the Bounty Trilogy and other successful adventure novels with fellow pilot Charles Nordhoff.

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Title: The Swaddling Clothes

Author: Amber Schamel

Narrator: George Taylor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2016

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Through the ages, many stories have been told about Mary, Joseph and the birth of the Messiah. Stories of shepherds and sheep, kings, angels, and stables. But there is one story that has never been told. One story that has remained hidden in the fabric of time. The story of The Swaddling Clothes. Mentioned not once, but several times in the Scriptural text, what is the significance of these special cloths? And how did they make their way into a stable in Bethlehem? From the author that brought you the Days of Messiah series comes a whole new adventure critics are calling "intriguing...thought provoking... a fresh twist on an age old story."

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Title: [German] - 1815 - Blutfrieden (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Sabine Ebert

Narrator: Doris Wolters

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 31 hours 46 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2016

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Deutschland im Herbst 1813: Als Napoleon in der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig geschlagen wird, ist er noch lange nicht besiegt. Niemand ahnt, dass es mehr als anderthalb Jahre dauern soll, bis er 1815 bei Waterloo endgültig bezwungen wird. Und statt des erhofften Friedens kommt immer größeres Elend über viele deutsche Städte. Die fliehende Grande Armée zieht eine Spur aus Blut, Hunger, Verwüstung und Krankheit durch das Land. Auch die junge Henriette, die nach Leipzig ging, um Verwundeten zu helfen, muss die Stadt verlassen und Hals über Kopf heiraten, um zu überleben. Als in Wien endlich Frieden geschlossen wird, ist Europa neu geordnet - und auch Henriette muss sich entscheiden, wie sie leben will.

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Title: [German] - Die steinerne Schlange

Author: Iny Lorentz

Narrator: Nicole Engeln

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2015

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Deutschland, 213 n. Chr.: Quintus Severus Silvanus kommt zu den Sueben, um den Stammesfürsten zur Heerfolge für einen von Kaiser Caracalla geplanten Feldzug aufzufordern. Als Quintus Gerhild zu Gesicht bekommt, will er sie als Geliebte mitnehmen. Gerhild sträubt sich jedoch und besteht auf einen Wettkampf. Sie tritt selbst gegen Quintus an, besiegt ihn und blamiert ihn damit vor dem ganzen Stamm. Quintus gibt sich damit nicht zufrieden, er sinnt auf Rache. Er will die junge Germanin als Sklavin haben und sie beherrschen. Doch dies sind nicht die einzigen Abenteuer, die Gerhild bestehen muss ...