Historical Fiction audiobooks

Daughter of Silk

By: Linda Lee Chaikin

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois.The Court is magnificent; its regent, Catherine de Medici, deceptively charming … and the... Read more

Dschingis Khan - Herr Der Steppe - Dschingis Khan Saga, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

By: Conn Iggulden

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Er kam aus der Steppe - und erschütterte die Welt! Nach jeder gewonnenen Schlacht wächst die Streitmacht des Dschinghis Khan. Er eint die Stämme der Steppe, die sich seit Jahrhunderten bekämpft haben, gegen einen gemeinsamen Feind: das Kaiserreich China. Auf dem Ritt durch die Wüste Gobi muss der junge Feldherr lernen, eine Armee zu befehligen,... Read more

McKettrick's Heart

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Lael Miller's best-selling contemporary romance novels are always a treat. Without a doubt the sexiest of her McKettrick series, McKettrick's Heart introduces a bold new love interest for handsome ladies' man Keegan McKettrick. Publishers Weekly enthuses over "the complex, conflicting dynamics [and] intense romance" in this sultry tale of... Read more

The Present

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey brings back her popular Malory family in this special holiday story, bringing her scandalous Malorys face-to-face with their distant gypsy kin. Fans will get a chance to see how it all started as their mysterious grandmother's gypsy kin comes to them for help, and another Malory falls head-over-heels for a member of the tribe. Read more

The King’s Secret Matter

By: Jean Plaidy

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The intrigues of the English royal court are brought to life in the Katharine of Aragon series, and this third and final installment captures them in spellbinding detail.The twelve-year marriage of Henry and Katharine has declined from an idyllic union into an uneasy stalemate. The king's love for his aging queen has grown cold, and he is angry... Read more

West of Dodge

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINS

A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a... Read more

The Heretic Queen

By: Michelle Moran

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning novel of passion, power, and redemption, a forgotten princess in ancient Egypt must overcome her family’s past and remake history—from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria.

“Moran’s careful attention to detail and her artful storytelling bring these people to vivid life, imbuing ancient history with... Read more

War Party - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the  Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . .  

Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a  war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight—a soldier's wife and a fortune in... Read more

The Strong Shall Live - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They came west to stay, risking their blood to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out a legacy of freedom. Men honed by desert fires and edged by combat with fist and gun. Women tested to the limit of endurance by an unrelenting land. Now, in a long-awaited collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour tells of the real... Read more

Riding for the Brand - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—one to fight for, be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead person. Allen Ring was another: He’d won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch... Read more

The Glass of Time

By: Michael Cox

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Like its predecessor, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox's The Glass of Time is an engrossing period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to... Read more

Stand the Storm

By: Breena Clarke

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves, but it is effectively a frontier town, gritty... Read more

The Black Arrow, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

England is in the throes of the War of the Roses. As the houses of Lancaster and York vie for the crown, young Richard Shelton eagerly serves under his guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, whose lessons he hopes will make him worthy of becoming a knight.



But Sir Daniel and his allies have been targeted by the outlaws known as the fellowship of the... Read more

The Fire Kimono

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. Called away from the crisis by the shogun's orders to investigate a mysterious skeleton, Sano and his wife, Reiko, must confront dangerous, long-buried secrets. What was Sano's... Read more

A Christmas Grace

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, she makes the long journey to her aunt’s home in Connemara, an all-but-forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. Emily soon discovers that a tragic legacy... Read more

The Cross-Country Quilters

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this entry from the popular series, five women meet at quilt camp and embark upon a project together. Over the next year, each woman must tackle a personal difficulty before adding her segment to their shared quilt. Despite the challenges they face, the women draw strength from their newfound sisterhood. ". as charming and cozy as a favorite... Read more

Only Mine

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling author of numerous historical novels, including Only His, Elizabeth Lowell has become famous for her stories of heightened passion and sensual romance. Her "Only" series is popularly and critically acclaimed. Wolfe Lonetree, the illegitimate son of an English viscount and a Cheyenne woman, has agreed to rescue his... Read more

Tread upon the Lion

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As General George Washington makes a desperate attempt to forge an army that can stop the British from taking New York and defeating the Continental Army, the Bradford family is learning that serving God and serving one’s country often calls for great sacrifice. Meanwhile, Clive Gordon, son of Colonel Leslie Gordon of the British army, falls in... Read more

The Given Day

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 23 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback edition of The Given Day, an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of... Read more

Only His

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times best-selling author holds a Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. With more than eight million copies of her books in print, Elizabeth Lowell has won a huge following of readers who yearn for romance as much as she does. Left alone on her family's Civil War-ravaged farm, Willow Moran wants to find her... Read more

El Oro de los Suenos

By: Jose Maria Merino

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Un joven mestizo, Miguel Villace Yolotl, participara en uno de los sucesos mas importantes de la historia de la Humanidad. America: territorios lejanos y salvajes, antiguas ciudades abandonadas desde tiempos remostos, fabulosos tesoros que esperan ser descubiertos ... un adolescente que se descubre a si mismo. El oro de los suenos es una... Read more

The Fire

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric... Read more

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Such is our task, and such lies before us all: Liberty or Death.
       
In the summer of 1775, fleeing from a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows Octavian hopes to find safe harbor. But in the midst of war, no... Read more

The Fire - Abridged

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric... Read more