Century #2: Star of Stone

The Start, 1904–1930

By: William L. Shirer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times bestselling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography.

A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in a personal history that... Read more »

1916

By: Morgan Llywelyn
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

First in the Irish Century historical fiction series, 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion begins the saga of the Halloran family during Ireland's long struggle for independence. At age fifteen, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents—and almost his own life—when the Titanic sank. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland... Read more »

Fall of Giants

By: Ken Follett
Length: 30 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. 

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new... Read more »

Lost on Purpose

By: Patrick Taylor
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length:
Abridged: No

Lost on Purpose is the nonfiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took leave of the real world to reinvent himself as a twenty-first century mountain man. In October-November 2013, Patrick Taylor crossed the Rocky Mountains alone on foot. He passed through one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower forty-eight to... Read more »

Fall of Giants - Abridged

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. 

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new... Read more »

Boneshaker

By: Cherie Priest
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Kate Reading
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

Cherie Priest's long-awaited steampunk debut, Boneshaker, opens in the early days of the Civil War when rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was... Read more »

Wolfhound Century

By: Peter Higgins
Narrated by: Neil Dickson
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.

A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky... Read more »

While the World Is Still Asleep

By: Petra Durst-Benning & Edwin Miles
Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

The first in a new series from Petra Durst-Benning, the bestselling author of The Glassblower series.

An inspiring historical tale of one woman risking it all for her dreams set in 1890s Berlin.

After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new... Read more »

The Champagne Queen

By: Petra Durst-Benning & Edwin Miles
Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn’t stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family’s isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land.

An unexpected inheritance... Read more »

1921

By: Morgan Llywelyn
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the epic tales of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn has chosen it as the subject of her major work, The Irish Century, a multi-novel chronicle that began with 1916, and now continues in 1921, both a story and a history. The two big historical names in 1921 are Eamon de Valera and... Read more »

Winter of the World

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 31 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World... Read more »

Dreadnought

By: Cherie Priest
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River.... Read more »

Winter of the World - Abridged

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age.

Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraordinary new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as “sweeping... Read more »

The Nightmare Years, 1930–1940

By: William L. Shirer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 26 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front-row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II.

In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the... Read more »

Truth and Fear

By: Peter Higgins
Narrated by: Neil Dickson
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city.

But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him,... Read more »

1949

By: Morgan Llywelyn
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length:
Abridged: No

Morgan Llywelyn's masterly epic, the Irish Century, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921. The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish... Read more »

The Queen of Beauty

By: Petra Durst-Benning & Edwin Miles
Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Length: 17 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Petra Durst-Benning’s captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century—like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder—who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful.

Despite all that Clara Berg has achieved as a wife, mother, and chemist—especially for a... Read more »

Ganymede

By: Cherie Priest
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

The third book in the Clockwork Century series, following Cherie Priest's steampunk adventure--and runaway hit--Boneshaker and its sequel, Dreadnought

The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money's good, he doesn't think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly... Read more »

A Native’s Return, 1945–1988

By: William L. Shirer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 21 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

The prominent journalist, historian, and author—an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century—tells the story of his final years.

In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940,... Read more »

The Apostle's Wife (First Century Christian Heroes Series, Book 4)

By: Col. Chuck Lehman
Narrated by: Cameron Beierle
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Aliza, the wife of a simple fisherman named Simon, is thunderstruck when her husband announces he and his business partner are quitting their jobs to follow a man known as Jesus of Nazareth. She is suddenly without income and nearly destitute! For three years Aliza sees Simon, now known as Peter, only occasionally. Her resentment mellows... Read more »

1972

By: Morgan Llywelyn
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length:
Abridged: No

The Irish Century series is the narrative of the epic struggle of the Irish people for independence through the tumultuous twentieth century. In 1972, Morgan Llywelyn tells the story of Ireland from 1950-1972 as seen through the eyes of young Barry Halloran, son and grandson of Irish revolutionaries. Northern Ireland has become a running sore,... Read more »

Loyalty Binds Me

By: Joan Szechtman
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

While on a pilgrimage to London to visit his first wife, Anne’s tomb in Westminster Abbey, Richard III is arrested for a 500 year-old murder. He must now protect his blended family and defend himself without revealing his true identity. Read more »

Claimed by the Vampire King - Complete

By: Susan G. Charles
Narrated by: Smokey Green
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

Are you looking for a new kind of vampire paranormal romance with a strong feminine hero in a very unique situation? A coming of age paranormal romance with action and some sexual situations too? Maybe a new adult paranormal romance set in a historical background? Then definitely listen on to this vampire paranormal romance bundle set of 2... Read more »

Claimed by the Vampire King, Book 2

By: Susan G. Charles
Narrated by: Smokey Green
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No

Are you looking for a new kind of vampire paranormal romance with a strong feminine hero in a very unique situation? A coming of age paranormal romance with action and some sexual situations too? And a historical romance too? Then definitely listen to this.

Catherine and the Count are married now and August lavishes her with gifts, ensuring that... Read more »

Century #2: Star of Stone

By: P. D. Baccalario
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

In the second installment of the Century Quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario continues the mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.

Four kids. A wooden top. And four postcards with secret instructions.

New York City, March 15
Another mysterious artifact reunites Harvey from New York, Elettra from Rome, Mistral... Read more »

Claimed by the Vampire King, Book 1

By: Susan G. Charles
Narrated by: Smokey Green
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Are you looking for a new kind of vampire paranormal romance with a strong feminine hero in a very unique situation? A coming of age paranormal romance with action and some sexual situations too? Then definitely listen to this.

Catherine Berg has always been a strong person, even since she was a young child. The eldest daughter of the town’s... Read more »

This Time: Richard III in the 21st Century--Book 1

By: Joan Szechtman
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

What if instead of dying in battle, Richard III awakens in the 21st-century? THIS TIME examines the medieval monarch as he adapts to modern technology, medicine, and American culture while investigating his past and what Shakespeare had wrought on his character.

"This Time" named General Fiction Finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book... Read more »

21st Century Superhuman Book 1 - Shift of the Ages

By: Cary Kirastar Ellis
Narrated by: Marek Villalobos
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

Navigate these times of great change into the most Powerful Evolutionary Leap in Human History...

★★★★"One of the Most Important Books on the Planet" & "Guidebook for Our Times..." ★★★★★ -- Carl Franklin, Key of Life Mystery Schools

We are now in what the Ancients called the 'Shift of the Ages' where 

• Celestial Conjunctions

• Ancient Wisdom

•... Read more »

Visions of Cody - Abridged

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Graham Parker
Length:
Abridged: Yes

"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes

Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an... Read more »

Strange Times

By: Joan Szechtman
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

"The Cat, the Rat and Lovel our Dog "Doe rule all England under a Hog"—William Colyngbourne The rat, Richard Ratcliffe died, and the cat, William Catesby was executed after Richard III, a hog lost his battle against Henry Tudor at Redemore in 1485. Francis Lovell, our dog, survived. Two years later, Lovell led the rebels at the Battle of Stoke... Read more »

The Men Who Lost America

By: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 21 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the... Read more »

Century #1: Ring of Fire

By: P. D. Baccalario
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.Rome, December 29.A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence—they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day.... Read more »

Edge of Eternity

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 36 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic series, The Century Trilogy.

Throughout the trilogy, Follett has followed the fortunes of five families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now, they come to one of the... Read more »

Edge of Eternity - Abridged

By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called “potent, engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) and “truly epic” (Huffington Post). USA Today said, “You actually feel like you’re there.”

Edge of ... Read more »