Historical Fiction audiobooks

Fit to Be Tied

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and Idaho rancher Cleo Arlington knows everything about horses but nothing about men. So when charged with transforming English aristocrat Sherwood Statham from playboy into cowboy, she’s totally disconcerted. So is Statham, who’s never encountered a woman succeeding in a “man’s world.” Their bumpy trot into romance is frustrating,... Read more

Trail of Fate

By: Michael P. Spradlin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Washed up on a foreign shore, Tristan is lucky to be alive. As before, it seems to be a miracle— the Holy Grail the young Templar squire is protecting has saved his life yet again. But now he is lost in a strange land, and he doesn't know if his friends, the fiery archer Robard Hode and the Saracen assassin maid Maryam, still survive. Tristan's... Read more

The Islands of the Blessed

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jack, Thorgil, and the Bard are off on a new quest in this immensely satisfying conclusion of the trilogy that began with The Sea of Trolls and continued in The Land of the Silver Apples” in this “beautifully written tale” (Kirkus Reviews).

It begins with a vicious tornado. (Odin on a Wild Hunt, as the young berserker Thorgil sees it.) The... Read more

To Try Men's Souls

By: Newt Gingrich

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington’s army.... Read more

To Try Men's Souls

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: William Dufris, Callista Gingrich & Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War with To Try Men's Souls.

The story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in... Read more

To Try Men's Souls

By: Newt Gingrich & William Forstchen

Narrated by: William Dufris, Gingrich Callista & Conger Eric

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington's army. ... Read more

All About Passion

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the latest tale in the immensely popular Cynster series.When Chillingworth is elected an "honorary Cynster" at the end of All About Love, he knows he needs a wife, and an heir. His goal; a simple marriage without romance. He agrees to marry a woman he believes to be pliant... Read more

Devil's Bride

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England's most eligible bachelor, Devil's... Read more

The Promise in a Kiss

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you were kissed by the most handsome stranger you'd ever seen? And what if that man was a Cynster?

Every girl—even convent-educated ones—dreams of forbidden kisses. So when a man literally falls at Helena's feet as she's walking through the courtyard one moonlit Christmas Eve, the pretty, young comtesse d'Lisle knows he's up... Read more

Lifeblood

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the critically acclaimed saga of blood and passion as only vampire Jack Fleming could tell it.Jack Fleming was an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago until he got shot by an unknown assassin, bitten by his vampire girlfriend—who has since disappeared—and then became one of the undead. Now, this nice-guy Nosferatu has a... Read more

A Rake's Vow

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

He vowed he'd never marry.To Vane Cynster, Bellamy Hall seems like the perfect place to temporarily hide from London's husband hunters. But when he encounters irresistible Patience Debbington, Vane realises he's met his match … She vowed no man would catch her.Patience isn't about to succumb to Vane's sensuous propositions. Yes, his kisses leave... Read more

Pope Joan

By: Donna Woolfolk Cross

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this international bestseller and basis for the 2009 movie of the same name, Donna Woolfolk Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.

For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend... Read more

Die Seelen im Feuer (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Birgitta Assheuer

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit der jungen Apothekertochter Johanna schauen wir in eine Welt, in der der Hexenglaube Wirklichkeit ist. Auch sie wird verdächtigt, mit Zauberei zu tun zu haben und schwebt in höchster Gefahr. Gelingt ihr die Flucht ins weltoffene Amsterdam? Bekommen die Bürger von Bamberg Hilfe bei Kaiser und Papst, um das Brennen zu beenden? Packend und... Read more

Rendezvous

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Augusta Ballinger was quite sure that it was all a dreadful mistake. The chillingly pompous and dangerously disturbing Earl of Graystone could not possibly wish to marry her. Why, it was rumored that his chosen bride must be a veritable model of virtue. And everyone knew that Augusta, as the last of the wild, reckless Northumberland Ballingers,... Read more

White Picket Fences

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and... Read more

American Adulterer

By: Jed Mercurio

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"The subject is an American citizen holding high elected office, married, and father to a young family..."



From its opening line, American Adulterer examines the psychology of a habitual womanizer in hypnotically clinical prose. Like any successful philanderer, the subject must be circumspect in his choice of mistresses and employ careful... Read more

Nuremberg

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history, a trial that continues to haunt the modern world. With his customary authority and audacity, William F. Buckley, Jr., has taken a pivotal moment in history and shaped it into a novel of riveting insight and understanding.Leading the listener into the... Read more

A Flickering Light

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams.

She took exquisite photographs,
but her heart was the true image exposed.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele... Read more

Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

By: Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan, and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found--and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.

Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and... Read more

Leviathan

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker,... Read more

Cäsar lässt grüßen Vol. 6

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Philipp Kreisselmeier

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Im sechsten Teil der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches übt der irrsinnige Caligula eine Schreckensherrschaft aus, bis er von seiner eigenen Frau verraten wird, Nero wird vorgestellt, und insgesamt kommen und gehen mehr Kaiser als in den fünf Teilen davor. Rom wird zunehmend von Mord und Totschlag beherrschaft, bis sein Untergang unausweichlich... Read more

Cäsar lässt grüßen Vol. 4

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Philipp Kreisselmeier

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Im vierten Teil der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches tritt Cäsar auf, erobert beinahe ganz Gallien, begegnet Kleopatra und tritt kurz darauf wieder ab. Sein Adoptivsohn Octavian spinnt weitere Intrigen gegen Cäsars politischen Nachfolger, Marcus Antonius, und wir lernen so einiges über die Tücken der Heiratspolitik. Im diesem Teil seiner... Read more

Cäsar lässt grüßen Vol. 5

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Philipp Kreisselmeier

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Im fünften Teil der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches verwandelt sich der machtgierige Octavian in den segensreichen Augustus, und Rom wird nach Jahren des Chaos und der Gewalt wieder gezähmt. Tiberius beerbt Augustus gegen seinen eigenen Willen, legt sich mit Gegenspieler Seianus an und führt die Tradition fort, seinen Nachfolger zu... Read more

A Company of Swans - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of ballet from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson.

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for... Read more