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Author: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Bianca Amato
SeriesCousin's War, Book 4
Duration 15h 6m
Philippa Gregory's gripping historical fiction propelled her to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. This fourth Cousins' War novel begins with the Earl of Warwick, whose schemes turn his daughter Anne into a pawn in his political games. After being married to Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, Anne finds herself in conflict with England's might...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Damien Goodwin
Duration 13h 43m
Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought between two badly matched armies that met in atrocious conditions on St Crispin's Day 1415. It has always been held to be the triumph of the longbow against the armoured knight, the common man against the feudal aristocrats. But these are myths. Bernard Cornwell depicts the reality behi...
View BookThe Horseman Riding By Book 3: The Green Gauntlet
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By, Book 3
Duration 18h 48m
Paul and Claire Craddock have grown older in years - but not in spirit. World War II is over. But there are new battles to be fought and won. The new property laws enable speculators to reap huge profits from agricultural lands, and Paul's livelihood is threatened. With the help of his family, Paul struggles to preserve the happiness and peace he h...
View BookThe Confession of Katherine Howard
Author: Suzannah Dunn
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Author Suzannah Dunn
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
Duration 9h 3m
When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her yet, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at 17, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis. Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne for Katherine. But whe...
View BookAuthor: Willa Cather
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Author Willa Cather
Narrator Christine Williams
Duration 14h 45m
In this semiautobiographical portrait of a young artist in the making, Willa Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, has dreams and gifts that her humble hometown will not satisfy. With the support of a few allies who recognize her rare qualities,...
View BookAuthor: Emma Mcevoy
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Author Emma Mcevoy
Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
Duration 5h 41m
As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell of a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching day in July, and the story of Saleem's family, whose loss of their ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their...
View BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 2: Copperhead
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Grover Gardner
SeriesThe Starbuck Chronicles, Book 2
Duration 15h 48m
The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862 and the northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, born in Boston but a Confederate h...
View BookAuthor: Laura Andersen
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Author Laura Andersen
Narrator Fiona Paul
SeriesBoleyn Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 9h 49m
Just 17 years old, King Henry IX, known as William, is anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening war and the Catholics' rebellion, he trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his loyal counsellor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's mother, Anne Boleyn. Against a tide of secrets, betray...
View BookAuthor: Laura Andersen
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Author Laura Andersen
Narrator Fiona Paul
SeriesBoleyn Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 11h 7m
William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne. But England must still contend with those who doubt his legitimacy. To diffuse tensions and appease the Catholics, William is betrothed to a young princess from France, but still he has eyes only for his childhood friend Minuette, which sends court tongues are wagging and assassins plottin...
View BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 4: The Bloody Ground
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Grover Gardner
SeriesThe Starbuck Chronicles, Book 4
Duration 13h 12m
The fourth book in The Starbuck Chronicles, The Bloody Ground follows Boston-born Confederate officer Nathaniel Starbuck as the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee invades the North, culminating in the Battle of Antietam Creek. It is only weeks after the Second Manassas in September 1862, and Robert E. Lee takes the war north, where he will be met...
View BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 3: Battle Flag
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Grover Gardner
SeriesThe Starbuck Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 15h 3m
After distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck is persecuted by his jealous and suspicious brigade commander, the grandiose General Washington Faulconer. Their simmering enmity flares to life at Dead Mary's Ford, where Starbuck must fight the enemy as well as his own commanding officer. The outcome o...
View BookAuthor: Melanie Benjamin
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Author Melanie Benjamin
Narrator Lorna Raver
Duration 16h 21m
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There...
View BookAuthor: Lauren Willig
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Author Lauren Willig
Narrator Nicola Barber
Duration 10h 21m
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly decease...
View BookAuthor: Ken Follett
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Author Ken Follett
Narrator Richard E. Grant
Duration 10h
Set in 12th-century England, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth chronicles the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has knownand the struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, brother against brother. Tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greate...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Robin Bowerman
Duration 13h 6m
Summer 1779, a British force of fewer than one thousand Scottish infantry were sent to build a garrison in the State of Maine. The War of Independence was in its third year and the State of Massachusetts was determined to expel the British. But when they sent a fleet of 40 vessels to 'captivate, kill and destroy' they underestimated their enemies,...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Hickson
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Author Joanna Hickson
Narrator Catherine Harvey
Duration 16h 44m
Pressed into service at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France, Mette's young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court. Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends Mette's lowly position. But as Catherine approaches womanhood she becomes a pawn between two powerful dynast...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Frederick Davidson
Duration 17h 30m
Four thousand years ago, a stranger's ominous gift and his death at the Old Temple of Ratharryn would precipitate the building of one of mankind's most remarkable achievements. Cornwell's epic novel, Stonehenge, catapults us into a powerful world of ritual, betrayal, and the never-ending pursuit of power, wealth, and spiritual fulfillment. Three br...
View BookAuthor: Sophia Tobin
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Author Sophia Tobin
Narrator Christine Mackie
Duration 11h 1m
1792. It's winter in Berkeley Square and the night-watchman comes across the body of silversmith Pierre Renard, his throat cut and his valuables missing. It could be common theft, but as news of the murder spreads, it soon becomes clear that Renard had more than a few enemies. At the centre of this web is Mary, the silversmith's wife. Ostensibly th...
View BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 1: Rebel
Author: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Grover Gardner
SeriesThe Starbuck Chronicles, Book 1
Duration 15h 8m
Young Nate Starbuck, the son of a famous Boston abolitionist preacher, flees the North after helping a femme fatale to steal money she claimed was hers. When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches him from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful to and awed by his idealistic rescuer. He agrees to join the newly formed Faulc...
View BookAuthor: Tara Conklin
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Author Tara Conklin
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 14h 42m
Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine. . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco fa...
View BookAuthor: Karen Harper
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Author Karen Harper
Narrator Zara Ramm
Duration 10h 15m
'I could not fathom they were going to kill the queen. Nor could I bear to witness Anne Boleyn's beheading...' As a favour to a doomed queen, Kat Ashley agrees to become governess and confidante to the young Elizabeth Tudor. Together they suffer bitter exile, assassination attempts, and imprisonment, barely escaping with their reputations and th...
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