Best Historical Fiction Audiobooks - April 2024

We Were the Lucky Ones

New York Times Best Seller Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite - We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. "Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely." (Glamour) It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatenin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N1YXMP1
• ASIN: B01N1YXMP1
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

Ordinary Grace: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Sold on a Monday: A Novel

A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes the story behind the picture is worth a thousand more.  2 CHILDREN FOR SALE.  In 1931, near Philadelphia, ambitious reporter Ellis Reed photographs the gut-wrenching sign posted beside a pair of siblings on a farmhouse porch. With the help of newspaper secretary Lily Palmer, Ellis writes an article to accompany the photo. Capturing the hardships of American families during the Great Depression, the feature story generates national attention and Ellis's career skyrockets.  But the piece also leads to consequences more devastating than he and... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GL3G1DX
• ASIN: B07GL3G1DX
• Manufacturer: Recorded Books

The Hideaway

Now a USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller!“A story both powerful and enchanting: a don’t-miss novel in the greatest southern traditions of storytelling.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her grandmother’s will wrenches Sara back home to Sweet Bay, Alabama, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in life.After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• Brand: Thomas Nelson
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XSSFK6D
• ASIN: B06XSSFK6D
• Brand: Brilliance Audio
• Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio

Necessary Lies

Best-selling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town 50 years ago, and the darkest - and most hopeful - places in the human heart. After losing her parents, 15-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister, and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness, and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give. When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. Sh... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CS5ON0S
• ASIN: B00CS5ON0S
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Breakthrough

** AMAZON TOP 100 BEST SELLER IN 2018 **ONE OF THE GREATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN HUMAN HISTORY.A SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND.AND A CRISIS THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED.Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history.With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with the planet's secon... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BVFM04C
• ASIN: B00BVFM04C
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Unknown

Winter Garden: A Novel

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family business; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, these two estranged sisters will find themselves together again, standing alongside their disapproving mother, Anya, who even now offers no comfort to her daughters. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise: Anya will tell her daughters a story; it is one she began years ago and never finished. This time she will tell it all the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0036UZC5Y
• ASIN: B0036UZC5Y
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all tha... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M14UN1J
• ASIN: B01M14UN1J
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Alice Network: A Novel

In an enthralling new historical novel from national best-selling author Kate Quinn, two women - a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 - are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. It's 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06Y4DMCTD
• ASIN: B06Y4DMCTD
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: HarperAudio

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• Manufacturer: Harper

Where the Crawdads Sing

Number-one New York Times best seller A Reese's Book Club + Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick "I can't even express in words how much I love this book...the way it's performed on Audible just took me right back to my long summers in Tennessee. This story has a special place in my heart - I didn't want it to end." (Reese Witherspoon)  "Painfully beautiful." (The New York Times Book Review) "Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver." (Bustle) How long can you protect your heart? For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 19... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07FSXPMHY
• ASIN: B07FSXPMHY
• Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

Salt to the Sea

New York Times best seller!  "Masterfully crafted." (The Wall Street Journal) Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Young Adult  For fans of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, international best-selling author Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating - yet unknown - tragedies.  In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019QZJKHS
• ASIN: B019QZJKHS
• Manufacturer: Listening Library

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous je... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00IZGQ780
• ASIN: B00IZGQ780
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

The Secret Sense of Wildflower - Southern Historical Fiction, Best Book of 2012

The story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three

• UPC: 53392142
• Rating: 4.25

The Best Man - Audiobook

This darkly satirical drama by Gore Vidal finds two Presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president, and explores how personal agendas can change the course of a nation's destiny. A co-production with The

• UPC: 470869196
• Rating: 4.0

Tempting the Best Man - Audiobook

Madison Daniels has worshiped her brother's best friend since they were kids. Everyone thinks she and Chase Gamble would make the perfect couple, but there are two major flaws in their logic. 1) Chase has

• UPC: 689699867
• Rating: 4.125

The Best Awful - Audiobook

Suzanne Vale, the Hollywood actress, whose drug addiction and rehab rigors were so brilliantly dissected by Carrie Fisher in Postcards From the Edge, is back. And this time she has a new problem: She's had

• UPC: 855958442
• Rating: 4.0

The Best of Second City - Audiobook

Take an unforgettable ride with the classic sketches that helped make the Second City America's foremost comedy troupe. The Second City lampoons every aspect of modern American life, with improvised sketches on subjects ranging from

• UPC: 946708437
• Rating: 1.0

The Best Friend - Audiobook

They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer . . . Wrong. Louisa's new best friend has it all-the house, the status, the money. But she's also hiding a dark secret. And

• UPC: 142102255
• Rating: 3.5

Best Friends Forever - Audiobook

Includes a bonus MP3 CD of Jennifer Weiner's Little Earthquakes!Some bonds can never be broken...Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when

• UPC: 545727117
• Rating: 3.324

The Next Best Thing - Audiobook

Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow,

• UPC: 395562021
• Rating: 3.611

Legacies #2: Best Defense - Audiobook

Just in time for the milestone 50th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series, an epic new trilogy that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission—and from one

• UPC: 873107666
• Rating: 5.0

In the Best Families - Audiobook

The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the

• UPC: 486166680
• Rating: 4.375

BEST KEPT SECRET by Jeffrey Archer, unabridged 9 CDs, Clifton Chronicles

• UPC: 143564426052
• Category: Audiobooks
• Price: 5 USD

NORTH AND SOUTH CLASSIC MP3 CD AUDIOBOOK E C GASKELL BEST SELLER HISTORIC NOVEL

• UPC: 131314465176
• Category: Audio Books
• Price: 2 GBP