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Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge
By: T.A. Willberg
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant." —Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The raven had struck. And the thing was, she knew exactly who was next…
London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twenty-five-year-old apprentice detective at the elusive... Read more
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
By: Olivia Waite
Narrated by: Morag Sims
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who... Read more
View audiobookScarlet
By: Genevieve Cogman
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved.
It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires—usually rich and aristocratic—have slaked the guillotine’s thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, and his League are heroically rescuing dozens of... Read more
The Stars Are Fire
By: Anita Shreve
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's... Read more
Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose
By: T.A. Willberg
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"What a delight... I found myself so drawn into this world of peculiar crimes that finishing the last page left me disoriented, requiring an extra beat to flash forward and rejoin the current century." – Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review
The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: “One of the new recruits is not to be... Read more
The Wright Sister
By: Patty Dann
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
An epistolary novel of historical fiction that imagines the life of Katharine Wright and her relationship with her famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright.On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world’s first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known... Read more
View audiobookA Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story—his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.
Dated 1724,... Read more
Heartstone
By: Elle Katharine White
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen’s beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a... Read more
View audiobookAfrican Town
By: Charles Waters & Irene Latham
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Ronald Peet, Andrew Eiden, ...
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda.... Read more
The Housekeepers
By: Alex Hay
Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs plot a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class
Named a Best Book of Summer by The Washington Post * Good Housekeeping * Harper's Bazaar * Reader's Digest
“Rollicking fun and entirely original... Anyone who... Read more
The Prince of Prohibition
By: Marilyn Marks
Narrated by: Brenda Scott Wlazlo
Length: 19 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The year was 1926. Glamour, riches, and greed filled the air, but under the façade of glitter and gold lay truths much darker, more sinister, and entirely less human... Adeline Colton was cursed. Everyone in Georgia knew the devil walked her farm, and maybe they were right, because each month she had dreams—visions of a dark prince and a... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Wife
By: Susanna Moore
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • This immersive, brilliantly subversive historical novel, inspired by a true story, is “set in 1855, follows 25-year-old Sarah Browne as she…heads west to the Minnesota Territory…When the Sioux Uprising of 1862 erupts…Sarah and her children are captured, but protected by the Sioux. Sarah... Read more
View audiobookTheatre of Marvels
By: Lianne Dillsworth
Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Set amid the bustle of Victorian London, an irresistible story of an ambitious young Black actress, an orphan from the slums who has finally achieved a dubious stardom as “The Great Amazonia, a savage African queen”—but everything she has fought for depends on hiding the secret of her own identity.As an orphan in the slums of St. Giles, Zillah... Read more
View audiobookThe Prospectors
By: Ariel Djanikian
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Samara Naeymi
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.“Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail, The Prospectors immerses us in the Yukon Gold Rush so deeply, you can feel the grit on your hands.”—Celeste Ng"Smart, surprising, and epic: the sort of... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Little Fools
By: Jillian Cantor
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan, Elizabeth Eva...
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To the police, it appears to be an... Read more
View audiobookJacqueline in Paris
By: Ann Mah
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight.” -- PeopleFrom the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier’s college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American... Read more
View audiobookA Murder Most French
By: Colleen Cambridge
Narrated by: Polly Lee
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The graceful domes of Sacré Coeur, the imposing cathedral of Notre Dame, the breathtaking Tour Eiffel . . . Paris is overflowing with stunning architecture. Yet for Tabitha Knight, the humble building that houses the Cordon Bleu cooking school, where her friend Julia studies, is just as notable. Tabitha is always happy to sample Julia's latest... Read more
View audiobookTwo Moons
By: Thomas Mallon
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, great changes are afoot: historical, romantic, and scientific. When the brilliant Cynthia May—a Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty—starts work as a human “computer” at the Observatory, astronomer Hugh Allison has found just the... Read more
View audiobookThe Shadow Network
By: Deborah Swift
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret Pianist
By: Andie Newton
Narrated by: Mary Galloway
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Sisters. Traitors. Spies. When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands… The occupation has taken much from the Cotillard sisters, and as the Germans increase their forces... Read more
View audiobookThe Lucky Penny
By: Dilly Court
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't miss Dilly Court's next captivating novel, coming October 2024 – available to pre-order now! Step into the world of Dilly Court and uncover her utterly heartwarming and emotional historical romance! Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora’s fortune was about to... Read more
View audiobookThe Wharton Plot
By: Mariah Fredericks
Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips—a writer with often... Read more
View audiobookThe House on Sun Street
By: Mojgan Ghazirad
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
For the curious and imaginative Moji, there is no better place to grow up than the lush garden of her grandparents in Tehran. However, as she sits with her sister underneath the grapevines, listening to their grandfather recount the enchanting stories of One Thousand and One Nights, revolution is brewing in her homeland. Soon, the last monarch... Read more
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