Historical Fiction audiobooks

What Price Love? - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Stephanie Laurens's newest novel, a passionate man and
a daring woman confront the ultimate questionWhat Price Love? Dillon Caxton, protégé of Demon Cynster, is now a man of sterling reputation, but it wasn't always so. Now impeccably honest, he is the Keeper of the Register of all racing horses in England. His standing and aloofness makes... Read more

Labyrinth

By: Kate Mosse

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.

Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young... Read more

Double Play

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1947, Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier—and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard—because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal. Read more

In the Company of the Courtesan

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.

Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s... Read more

The Rebels of Ireland - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland... Read more

The Templar Legacy

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Exciting . . . hard to put down without reading one more page.”—The Florida Times-Union

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces... Read more

The Templar Legacy - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Brian Corrigan

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Exciting . . . hard to put down without reading one more page.”—The Florida Times-Union

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces... Read more

The Heiress Bride

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The third Bride novel is a charm—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Sinjun Sherbrooke is bored with the London season, until she spies Colin Kinross across a crowded dance floor—and offers to be his bride... Read more

The Alchemist's Daughter

By: Katharine McMahon

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets abound in this gripping tale of a young woman cloistered since birth who discovers that knowledge is no subsitute for experience when she choses to follow her heart over science.

Raised by her father in near isolation in the English countryside, Emilie Selden is trained as a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. In the spring of... Read more

The Water Mirror

By: Kai Meyer

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin–a boy who was once a master thief–works for a weaver of magic cloth. Now, Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and flying sunbarks are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody... Read more

In the Company of the Courtesan - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Richard Grant

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.

Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s... Read more

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

By: Dominic Smith

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year,... Read more

Articles of War

By: Nick Arvin

Narrated by: J. D. Cullum

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The terrors of a young soldier come to life in shocking, almost hallucinatory detail in a powerful first novel that follows in the footsteps of The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms. Read more

The Pale Horseman - Abridged

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the... Read more

Queen of the Underworld

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of... Read more

Queen of the Underworld - Abridged

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of... Read more

The Princes of Ireland - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence of... Read more

“Shoot, Minnie, Shoot!”

By: Happy Jack Feder

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1903, over three hundred Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men’s and women’s... Read more

We Look like Men of War

By: William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more

The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his... Read more

Fall of a Philanderer

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday—but Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent... Read more

Bloodlist

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series."I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was—get this—a vampire. But did I listen? No."Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug... Read more

Addie

By: Lee Thompson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the mid-1880s, when Florida south of St. Augustine is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts. Addie is a “beanery queen” who ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. She is popular with the train crews but is disdained by most of the... Read more

The Hope Before Us

By: Elyse Larson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Contending valiantly against the Nazi threat in war-torn Europe, two sisters unite to thwart a sinister plan, in this third book in Elyse Larson’s Women of Valor series.When Marge Emerson uncovers a diabolical Nazi plot she is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God... Read more