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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: China Hand Author: Harry Homewood Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 02-28-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: In 1937 the United States still suffered in the Great Depression, as did most of the world. For the US Navy, that meant restricted budgets - and the Asiatic Fleet, on the far side of the world, out of sight of the navy's commanders and the American public, was at the bottom of the list for the navy's limited resources. Bobby MacPherson, seaman second class, only 17 years old and freshly graduated from radio operator school, was naively excited by his assignment to the submarine S-37 stationed with the Asiatic Fleet. The exotic places providing bases for the American Navy - Manila, Shanghai, Tsingtao - and their strange cultures, histories, and people engaged his driving cur

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Their Finest Subtitle: A Novel Author: Lissa Evans Narrator: Peter Wickham Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 02-14-17 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another "smart, funny, ingenious, revealing tale of London life during the Second World War" (The Independent) - long-listed for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England. It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way, and everyone must do their bit. Young copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films - something that the men aren't very good at. She is quickly seconded to the ministry's latest endeavor: a heartwarming tale of bravery and re

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Special Force Subtitle: A World War II Commando Novel Author: Darren Sapp Narrator: Patrick Freeman Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 01-25-17 Publisher: Darren Sapp Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: For three years, the Nazis have held France hostage, terrorizing its citizens, and deporting Jews to work camps in the East. A company of brutal SS Panzer troops have taken over the City Hall of Caen and control the heartbeat of the city. Local bands of Resistance fighters operate in the shadows to disrupt, derail, and destroy German operations. The OSS recruits Nick Jordan, an accomplished Yale athlete, to join an elite commando unit. He and his fellow candidates are put through a year-long training regimen at a covert base learning skills and tradecraft far beyond those of the typical soldier. Their initial mission, Operation

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: First of the Tudors Author: Joanna Hickson Narrator: Tom Clegg, Non Haf Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 12-01-16 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: A stunning audiobook of the Tudors from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride. Jasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up far from the intrigue of the royal court. But after he and his brother Edmund are summoned to London, their half brother, King Henry VI, takes a keen interest in their future. Bestowing earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes devoted to her and is devastated when Henry arranges her betrothal to Edmund. He seeks solace in his estates and in the arms of Jane Hywel

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Sound of Thunder Subtitle: The Great Novel of a Man Enslaved by Passion and Cursed by His Own Success Author: Taylor Caldwell Narrator: Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 11-29-16 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Money. Power. Prestige. These were the riches that destiny had awarded Edward Enger, but a greedy, ruthless family conspired against him and his own relentless desires enslaved him! As the descendant of a German immigrant, Edward built a business empire and dominated three generations of his family. Caldwell weaves the tale of a modern financial genius and the secret passions that obsessed him. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Longshot into the West Subtitle: A Hidden Part of the Civil War Affects lives, Property, & Nation's futures Author: Keith R. Baker Narrator: A.W. Miller Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 10-19-16 Publisher: K and L Publishing Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Rob Finn is joined by William Cody and Lonnie Walters as they begin their journey into the gold country of the west in 1862. They are headed toward Bannack, a town springing up on the banks of Grasshopper Creek, Washington Territory. Soon it would become Idaho Territory, and shortly after that, Montana Territory. But not without the birth pangs that accompany such events. Rob meets desperate and unscrupulous men such as Henry Plummer, as well as gentle and generous natives who heal and help the strangers in their land. We learn that the treasures of the earth are sought

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Undesirables Author: Chad Thumann Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 10-18-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: In the winter of 1941-1942, Leningrad is under siege, and Karen Hamilton, a seventeen-year-old American musician, finds herself trapped and struggling to survive. Throughout the city, people are dying of starvation and frostbite, and Karen knows that if she doesn't escape immediately, she will share their fate. If she has any hope of leaving Russia and reuniting with her fiancé, Bobby, in New York, she must do the impossible: cross enemy lines and then stow away. On her harrowing journey, Karen encounters Petr, a young conscripted Russian soldier. She isn't sure she can trust him - he is equally wary of her. But as the two join forces in order to stay alive,

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Rise of the Golden Heart Subtitle: Strategos, Book 2 Author: Gordon Doherty Narrator: Rob Goll Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 10-07-16 Publisher: www.gordondoherty.co.uk Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Stay strong, Haga, for the Golden Heart will rise in the west. At dawn, he will wear the guise of a lion hunter. At noon, he will march to the east as if to conquer the sun itself. At dusk, you will stand with him in the final battle, like an island in the storm. AD 1068: the armies of the Seljuk Sultanate tear at Byzantium's borders, poised to strike the death blow that will bring all Anatolia under their yoke. Alp Arslan's armies grow stronger with every passing season, while the beleaguered Byzantine soldiers defend for their lives, the hope in their hearts guttering its last. This war has been Apion's mistress for ma

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Pharaoh Author: Wilbur Smith Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 09-22-16 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The worldwide number one best seller. Wilbur Smith returns to ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times. Egypt is under attack. Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded. All seems lost. Taita prepares for the enemy's final fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose's armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. And this is Egypt's most desperate hour. With the timely arrival of an old ally, the tide is turned, and the Egyptian army feasts upon its retreating foe. But upon his victorious return to Luxor, Taita is seized and branded a traitor. Tamose is dea

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Gospel According to the Son Subtitle: A Novel Author: Norman Mailer Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ's story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and expressing it, "as if I were a man enclosing another man within." In its brevity and piercing simplicity, it may be Mailer's most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea Author: Randolph Stow Narrator: Humphrey Bower Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 09-12-16 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists. In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his older favourite cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns from the war several years later, he has changed, and Rob feels betrayed. The old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia (the security of his family and of the land that is his home) begins to disintegrate before his eyes. Critic Revie

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Chosen Ones Subtitle: A Novel Author: Steve Sem-Sandberg, Anna Paterson - translator Narrator: Bob Reed Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 08-13-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants. Through the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, Steve Sem-Sandberg, the author of the award-winn

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Ack-Ack Macaque Subtitle: Ack-Ack Macaque, Book 1 Author: Gareth Powell Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 08-09-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed Ack-Ack Macaque. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt everything, including his own existence. A century later, in a world where France and Great Britain merged in the late 1950s and nuclear-powered Zeppelins circle the globe, ex-journalist Victoria Valois finds herself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who butchered her husband and stole her electronic soul. Meanwhile, in Paris, after taking part in an illegal break

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Zuckerman Unbound Subtitle: The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 2 Author: Philip Roth Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 06-29-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a best-selling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent 60s. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound, the second volume in a tril

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Maud's Line Author: Margaret Verble Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 06-23-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the US government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she takes notice. Soon, she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones. Contact me for any

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Margaret the First Subtitle: A Novel Author: Danielle Dutton Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 06-09-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. As one of the queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the war her work earned her both fame and infamy in England; at the daw

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Despite the Falling Snow Author: Shamim Sarif Narrator: Shamim Sarif Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-16 Publisher: Enlightenment Press Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has lived in America for 40 years and has managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will start to open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened to Katya all those years ago. The audiobook's journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow reveals a precarious, dangerous world of secrets and treachery. Critic Reviews: "Despite the Falling Snow by Shami

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Pan Wolodyjowski (Trylogia Sienkiewicza 3) Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz Narrator: Mieczyslaw Voit Format: Unabridged Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 05-10-16 Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: "Pan Wolodyjowski" jest zwienczeniem Trylogii. Henryk Sienkiewicz polaczyl istotne watki: losy Zagloby, Skrzetuskiego i tytulowego Michala Wolodyjowskiego. Opowiesc o milosci, przyjazni, zazdrosci, nienawisci i zdradzie przedstawionych na tle wojen z Turcja. Please note: This audiobook is in Polish. © Public Domain (P)2013 Storybox Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Reds in the Beds Subtitle: Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels, Volume 5 Author: Martin Turnbull Narrator: Lance Roger Axt Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 04-25-16 Publisher: Martin Turnbull Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday? Hollywood history is more than just colorful. It's dripping with red. As World War II ends, a new boogeyman emerges: the Red Menace. When a scandal accuses Tinseltown of being riddled with Communists, MGM writing department head Marcus Adler needs to keep his reputation beyond reproach. Unfortunately in Hollywood, nobody's past is spotless. While the House Un-American Activities Committee prepares to grill the brightest stars in town, gossip columnist Kathryn Massey is doing everything she can to shed the FBI informer

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Shadow Princess Subtitle: The Taj Mahal Trilogy, Book 3 Author: Indu Sundaresan Narrator: Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 03-22-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 58 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Critically acclaimed author Indu Sundaresan returns to 17th-century India as two princesses struggle for supremacy of their father's kingdom. Trapped in the shadow of the magnificent tomb their grief-stricken father is building for his beloved deceased wife, the emperor's daughters compete for everything: control over the imperial harem, their father's affection, and the future of their country. They are forbidden to marry and instead choose to back different brothers in the fight for ultimate power over the throne. But only one of the sisters will succeed. With an enthusiasm for history and a flair for rich detai