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Author: Philippa Gregory
Series: Cousin's War, Book 4
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: Libby Hellman Fischer
Author Libby Hellman Fischer
Narrator Diane Piron Gelman
Duration 9h 26m
Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, fall in love despite their very different backgrounds. Anna, who has never been close to her parents, is more than happy to return with Nouri to his native Iran, to be embraced by his wealthy family. Beginning their married life together in 1978, their world is abruptly turned upside down by the overthrow o...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 5h 26m
Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister's hand - a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart - it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can s...
View BookAuthor: Emma Mcevoy
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 BookAuthor: Willa Cather
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: Georgette Heyer
Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 4h 51m
When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She finds him insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and begin a new-found liking and respect for each other...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 5: The White Princess
Author: Philippa Gregory
Series: Cousin's War, Book 5
Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Bianca Amato
SeriesCousin's War, Book 5
Duration 18h 59m
Crowned the "queen of royal fiction" by USA Today, Philippa Gregory is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association's RoNA Award for The Other Boleyn Girl. The White Princess continues the saga of the War of the Roses as Princess Elizabeth of York weds Henry VII after he kills Richard III in battle. Now q...
View BookCousins' War Series Book 1: The White Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
Series: Cousin's War, Book 1
Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Susan Lyons
SeriesCousin's War, Book 1
Duration 15h 2m
Philippa Gregory-the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Parker Pen Novel of the Year The Other Boleyn Girl-delivers the first in a series of historical novels set during the tumultuous War of the Roses. This compelling tale of romance, rivalry, and revenge unfolds through the eyes of Elizabeth Woodville, the woman whose renowned beauty catapu...
View BookAuthor: Linda Sue Park
Author Linda Sue Park
Narrator David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
Duration 2h 41m
In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people . . . people like the boy, Salva Dut . . . caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new lif...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 16h 39m
IN 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France an...
View BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Bianca Amato
Duration 18h
Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse.. Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives - King Henry VIII - commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted sixte...
View BookAuthor: Lauren Willig
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: Melanie Benjamin
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 BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 3: Battle Flag
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Series: The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 3
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 BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 4: The Bloody Ground
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Series: The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 4
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 BookAuthor: Laura Andersen
Series: Boleyn Trilogy, Book 2
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 BookAuthor: Laura Andersen
Series: Boleyn Trilogy, Book 1
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 BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 2: Copperhead
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Series: The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 2
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: Rosie Clark
Author Rosie Clark
Narrator Helena Coates
Duration 9h 26m
Newly married to the caring RAF pilot Jonathan Reece, Emma thinks that life couldn't be better. But her happiness is short-lived: within months, Jon's plane is shot down over France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. Alone and with two children to care for, Emma's first thought is how to support her family. But when she makes a new friend i...
View BookAuthor: Tara Conklin
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 BookThe Starbuck Chronicles Book 1: Rebel
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Series: The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 1
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...
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