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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Call to Juno Subtitle: A Tale of Ancient Rome, Book 3 Author: Elisabeth Storrs Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 12-07-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: "An elegant, impeccably researched exploration of early Rome...Elisabeth Storrs weaves a wonderful tale!" - Kate Quinn, author of The Empress of Rome saga Four unforgettable characters are tested during a war between Rome and Etruscan Veii. Caecilia has long been torn between her birthplace of Rome and her adopted city of Veii. Yet faced with mounting danger to her husband, children, and Etruscan freedoms, will her call to destroy Rome succeed? Pinna has clawed her way from prostitute to the concubine of the Roman general Camillus. Deeply in love, can she exert her own power to survive the threat of exposure by t

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Attenbury Emeralds Subtitle: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Author: Jill Paton Walsh Narrator: Edward Petherbridge Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 11-03-16 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Now it is 1951. A happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new young Lord Attenbury - grandson of Lord Peter's first client - seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921. It will be the most intricate and challenging m

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Lancashire Witches Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Narrator: Stanley Green Format: Unabridged Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 09-26-16 Publisher: Audioliterature Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: "The Lancashire Witches" is a historical novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Ainsworth based his story largely on the official account of the Lancashire witch trials written by the clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, first published in 1613 under the title "The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster". The trials took place not quite seven years after the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to kill King James and the Protestant aristocracy. It was alleged that the Pendle witches had hatched their own gunpowder plo

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Barkskins Author: Annie Proulx Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-16 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterpiece, 10 years in the writing - an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest, set over three centuries. In the late 17th century, two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a seigneur, for three years in exchange for land, they suffer extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest they are charged with clearing, sometimes brimming with dreams of its commercial potent

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Lustrum (Cicero 2) Author: Robert Harris Narrator: Jakob Sveistrup Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 06-02-16 Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Stedet er Rom og tiden er r 63 f.Kr. Syv maend kaemper om magten i republikken: Cicero er konsul, Caesar hans ubarmhjertige unge rival, Pompey er republikkens maegtigste general, Crassus dens rigeste mand, Cato er politisk fanatiker, Catilina psykopaten og Clodius en ambitis playboy. Historierne om disse virkelige historiske figurer - deres alliancer og forraederi, deres grusomheder og forfrelser, deres storslethed og deres forbrydelser - det hele flettes sammen i denne farverige roman. Fortaelleren er Tiro, som er Ciceros betroede sekretaer, og han kender alle sin herres hemmeligheder, noget der bringer ham i en vanskelig og til tider livsfarlig pos

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: L.A. Woman Author: Eve Babitz Narrator: Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-16 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Eve Babitz is a writer like no other - she "is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz" (Vanity Fair) - and she has influenced a generation of writers, readers, and listeners with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A.; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and that Rudolph Valentino is the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Genesis Subtitle: Idolatry, Book 1 Author: Quent Cordair Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 05-12-16 Publisher: Cordair Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: In the twilight of the Roman Empire, a sculptor struggles to keep an 800-year dream alive while honoring the love of his life and raising his adopted son. Part I of the epic five-part Idolatry series, the story of a wealthy young heir and a devout Christian girl who find themselves at the heart of a 2,400-year struggle for the soul of Western Civilization. ©2014 Quent Cordair (P)2016 Quent Cordair Critic Reviews: "Beautifully written, on the order of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, with the historical insight of James Michener, it brings to life a time of great thought, great art, and its clash with religious fanaticism. Cordair writes with

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Wreck of the Ten Sail Subtitle: Tides of Fortune, Book 2 Author: Steven Becker Narrator: Richard Rosser Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 05-06-16 Publisher: The White Marlin Press Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Blown off course by a storm, Nick and the handful of men remaining from Gasparilla's crew find themselves and their fortune in dire straights in the Cayman Islands. Double crossed by the island's governor, Nick must find a way to keep the crew together, rescue Rory, and recover the confiscated treasure. When a local reveals a clue to a fortune hidden in one of the ships lost in The Wreck of the Ten Sails, Nick and the crew fight the dangers of primitive diving to salvage the treasure, save Rory, and cast off the pirate mantle. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia, Episode 3 Subtitle: Family Ties Author: Julian Fellowes Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 04-21-16 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 65 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the duchess of Richmond's ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings. Set in the 1840s, when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industri

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Precious Things Author: Kelly Doust Narrator: Mel Hudson Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 03-25-16 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of gloriously absorbing, lush and moving women's fiction by authors such as Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Joanne Harris comes Precious Things. Normandy, France, 1891: a young woman painstakingly sews an intricate beaded collar to her wedding dress, the night before her marriage to someone she barely knows. Yet Aimee longs for so much more.... Shanghai, 1926: dancing sensation and wild child Zephyr spies what looks like a beaded headpiece lying carelessly discarded on a ballroom floor. She takes it with her to Malaya where she sets her sights on a prize so out of reach that, in striving for it, she will jeopardise everything she holds dear.

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Eagle in Exile Subtitle: The Clash of Eagles Trilogy, Book II Author: Alan Smale Narrator: Kevin Orton Format: Unabridged Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 03-22-16 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale's gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny. In AD 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus is tasked with conquering North America and turning it into a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great city of Cahokia, his legion is destroyed outright; Marc

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Sudden Death Author: Álvaro Enrigue Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 02-09-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe into the flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII behead Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the world. And in a remote Mexic

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: A Friend of Mr. Lincoln Subtitle: A Novel Author: Stephen Harrigan Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 02-02-16 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Gates of the Alamo Author Stephen Harrigan returns to his historical fiction roots, reimagining Abraham Lincoln's early life, when he was a young lawyer and rising politician in Springfield, Illinois. Told from the point of view of Lincoln's best friend, it starts during the Blackhawk War (in which Lincoln served) and ends in the mid-1840s, when Lincoln goes off to Washington after being elected to Congress, and his friend heads west with the Donner party. The novel is about a crucially formative period in Lincoln's life, when he was ruled by an almost ungovernable ambition and beset by bouts of depression, sometimes ruthlessly

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Instaread on The Japanese Lover: Isabel Allende's Novel Author: Instaread Narrator: Patricia Santomasso Format: Unabridged Length: 30 mins Language: English Release date: 01-29-16 Publisher: Instaread Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is a novel that chronicles a forbidden but passionate romance that grows between two people over time, and how this relationship touches the lives of others over the course of several decades. Much of the book is set in San Francisco during and after World War II, when tensions were high between the United States and Japan and between Nazi Germany and European Jews; both conflicts impact the formation of the relationship at the heart of the novel. Irina Bazili is a young girl with no family and a dark past who comes to

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Master of the Prado Author: Javier Sierra Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 01-26-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Presented as a fictionalized autobiography, The Master of the Prado begins in Madrid in 1990, when Sierra encounters a mysterious stranger named Luis Fovel within the halls of the Prado. Fovel takes him on a whirlwind tour and promises to uncover startling secrets hidden in the museum's masterpieces - secrets that open up a whole new world to Sierra. The enigmatic Fovel reveals how a variety of visions, prophesies, conspiracies, and even heresies inspired masters such as Raphael, Titian, Hieronymus Bosch, Botticelli, Brueghel, and El Greco. The secrets they concealed in their paintings are stunning enough to change the way we think about art, uncovering mys

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Now Is the Time Author: Melvyn Bragg Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-15 Publisher: Sceptre Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two weeks the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality, and the complete uprooting of the Church and state. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looke

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Tyger Subtitle: Thomas Kydd, Book 16 Author: Julian Stockwin Narrator: Christian Rodska Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-15 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has some sympathy for Popham's unauthorised action, but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the admiralty. With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a commission that some hope will destroy his career. Tyger has recently mutinied, but instead of having her company dispersed around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Se

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Acts of War Subtitle: The Usurper's War, Book 1 Author: James Young Narrator: K. Caldwell Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 09-24-15 Publisher: James L. Young, Jr. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: "Somehow I doubt that this is quite how anyone expected Adolf Hitler's death to turn out...." - Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, No. 303 (Polish) Squadron August 1942. London is in flames. Heinrich Himmler's Germany stands triumphant in the West, its "Most Dangerous Enemy" forced to the peace table by a hailstorm of nerve gas and incendiaries. With Adolf Hitler avenged and portions of the Royal Navy seized as war prizes, Nazi Germany casts its baleful gaze across the Atlantic toward an increasingly isolationist United States. With no casus belli, President Roosevelt must convince his fellow Americans that it is better to deal with a t

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Wars of the Roses: Bloodline Subtitle: The Wars of the Roses, Book 3 Author: Conn Iggulden Narrator: Roy McMillan Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 09-24-15 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 31 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Wars of the Roses: Bloodline, the third instalment in Conn Iggulden's thrilling Wars of the Roses trilogy. Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of York city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen rides south with an army of northerners, accompanied by warriors from the Scottish Highlands. Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. But his death has unleashed York's sons. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims himself England's rightful king. Through blood an

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Secret Adversary Subtitle: Tommy & Tuppence, Book 1 Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: Andrea Giordani Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 09-23-15 Publisher: A.R.N. Publications Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: If famed crime novelist Agatha Christie knows one thing, it's how to draw her listeners in with a series of subplots and converging story lines. The Secret Adversary, which is the first novel in the series that follows Tommy and Tuppence, chronicles the pair's quest to find a mysterious woman who goes by the name of Jane Finn. Earlier in 1915, Jane Finn had been given a secret document while aboard the Lusitania, which was sunk due to a torpedo hit. That document was a treaty, and Jane was entrusted by the stranger who gave it to her to deliver it to the American Embassy located in London. Years later, the documen