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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: His Illegal Self Author: Peter Carey Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 02-15-08 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 46 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: One afternoon, the prediction appears to come true. Soon Che, too, is an outlaw, fleeing into the subway and pitched into a journey that leads to a hippie commune in the jungles of tropical Australia. Here, Che slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Critic Reviews: "Peter Carey's enthralling new novel is psychologically taut [and] starkly beautiful." (New York Times Book Review) "A beautiful and emotionally compelling novel....at its core [this] is an ancient and magnificently eerie fairy tale, about a child wise beyond his years, stolen away to the forest, undergoing every kind of mortal trial, and surviving, in a

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Commoner Subtitle: A Novel Author: John Burnham Schwartz Narrator: Janet Song Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs Language: English Release date: 01-22-08 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 65 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Met with cruelty and suspicion by the empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled at every turn. The only interest the court has in her is in her ability to produce an heir. After finally giving birth to a son, she suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her voice. Determined not to be crushed by the imperial bureaucrats, Haruko perseveres - 30 years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman, "a rising star in the foreign ministry", to accept the marriage proposal of her son, the crown prince. The consequences are tragic and dramatic. Told from Haruko's perspective, meticulously researched, and superbly imagin

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Last Legion Author: Valerio Massimo Manfredi Narrator: Martin Shaw Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 11-20-07 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The film stars Colin Firth, Sir Ben Kingsley, John Hannah, Kevin McKidd (of BBC2's Rome), and Aishwarya Rai. Shot on location in Tunisia, Slovakia, and Capri, this is a Dino De Laurentiis production, directed by Doug Lefler (Dragonheart: A New Beginning). 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: Forgotten Dreams Author: Katie Flynn Narrator: Anne Dover Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 10-09-07 Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Lottie and her mother, Louella, share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son, Baz. Lottie is a child star, dancing and singing at the Gaiety Theatre to an enraptured audience; Louella acts as Max Magic's assistant. But a road accident causes Lottie to lose her memory. Louella tries to help, but the white mist remains. Then Lottie meets a boy with golden-brown eyes who calls her "Sassy" and accuses her of running away. It is after this meeting that the dreams start, dreams of another life, almost another world, and Lottie, sharing them with Baz, begins to believe he knows more than he chooses to tell. ©2007 Katie Flynn; (P)2007 Soundings Critic Reviews:

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Leonardo's Swans Author: Karen Essex Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 01-12-06 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 39 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Though Isabella weds the Marquis of Mantua, a man she has loved since childhood, Beatrice's fortunes rise effortlessly through her marriage to Ludovico. The two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe, and Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wrestles back her true fate and plays temptress to the sensuous Ludovico and muse to the great Leonardo. But when Ludovico's grand plan to control Europe begins to crumble, immortality through art becomes a luxury, and the two sisters must choose between familial loyalty and survival in the treacherous political climate. Leonardo's Swans is an exceptionally vivid evocation of the art

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Fragrant Harbour Author: John Lanchester Narrator: David Yip Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 12-27-05 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Tom Stewart leaves England just before the Great Depression to seek his fortune and find it running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful, uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. And Matthew Ho is a Chinese entrepreneur facing difficulties and opportunities in the twenty-first century. Fragrant Harbour is the story of these four people, whose intertwined lives span Asia's last 70 years. ©2002 John Lanchester; Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Book of Kings Author: James Thackara Narrator: Robert Whitfield Format: Unabridged Length: 35 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 12-23-05 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The title alludes to God's prophetic warning to Samuel about the rise of man-made kings. James Thackara, as John Walsh wrote in The New Yorker, "watches Hitler's rise from a dozen different perspectives: at Nuremberg rallies; as reported in dinner table gossip; in close-up appearances at Hindenburg's side; in letters and rumors of war; in the gradually thickening atmosphere of fright and inevitability." A work of extraordinary vision and range, The Book of Kings magnificently fuses myth and the inexorable events of history. Critic Reviews: "Absorbing...when you encounter one of the huge set-pieces that punctuate the action you are rocked on your

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Last Kingdom Subtitle: The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1 Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jamie Glover Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 06-17-05 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed English nobleman. Captured as a child and raised by the Danes, he now finds his allegiances divided. But the one thing he knows is that he wants to recover his father's land, the fort by the wild northern sea that we now know as Bamburgh. Bernard Cornwell is a master of historical fiction and this new series, looking with a fresh light at Alfred the Great, his kingdom, and his legacy, will be as outstanding and as popular as the Grail Quest and the Warlord Chronicles. Critic Reviews: "Cornwell is a virtuoso of historical fiction." (Sunday Tel

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Eric Brighteyes Author: Henry Rider Haggard Narrator: Shelly Frasier Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 02-05-04 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: This deftly crafted Viking tale depicts the terror, tragedy, and vanity of life. The ill fated lovers, Eric and "Gudruda the Fair", fall victim to the jealous Swanhild's sorcery. Eric and his 'thrall' must overcome treachery, bloodthirsty foes, the open sea and blizzards as he battles to win his beloved Gudruda. Will the star-crossed lovers triumph over the fate of the Norns and the spite of Swanhild? © and (P)2003 Tantor Media, Inc. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com