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The Jackdaw Mysteries, Book 2
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S.W. Perry
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A smart and gripping tale of conspiracy, murder and espionage in Elizabethan London. Treason sleeps for no man....
London, 1591. Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London's lawless Bankside. But when the queen's spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious doctor from Switzerland, Nicholas is soon embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not just the life of an innocent young patient but the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth herself.
With fellow healer and mistress of the Jackdaw tavern Bianca Merton again at his side, Nicholas is drawn into a dangerous world of zealots, charlatans and fanatics. As their own lives become increasingly at risk, they find themselves confronting the greatest treason of all: the spectre of a bloody war between the faiths....
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Born Queen of Scotland, married as a young girl to the invalid young King of France, Mary took the reins of the unruly kingdom of Scotland as a young widow and fought to keep her throne. A second marriage to her handsome but dissolute cousin Lord Darnley ended in murder and scandal, while a third marriage to the dashing, commanding Lord Bothwell, the love of her life, gave her joy but widened the scandal and surrounded her with enduring ill repute.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fiction being the key word
- De Bonnie-Ann B en 09-25-09
De: Carolly Erickson
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A Morbid Taste for Bones
- De: Ellis Peters
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,370
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
Cadfael's return to his Welsh homeland for a visit proves a rather discomfiting homecoming when an honorable nobleman turns up in a patch of forest with an arrow embedded in his chest. There are questions about the arrow, the man's daughter needs Cadfael's help, and a very odd burial takes place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very pleasant if not much of a mystery.
- De Zenjen en 04-15-10
De: Ellis Peters
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Cathedral
- De: Ben Hopkins
- Narrado por: Malk Williams, Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 19 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
A sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art and earthly desire. At the centre of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 13th and 14th centuries in the fictional town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. From the bishop to his treasurer, from local merchants to lowly stonecutters, the fate of everyone, both Gentile and Jew, is affected by the slow rise of Hagenburg’s cathedral.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting description of life in the Middle Ages
- De leongork en 06-30-21
De: Ben Hopkins
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The Iron King
- The Accursed Kings, Book 1
- De: Maurice Druon
- Narrado por: Peter Joyce
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 670
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 614
From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair - but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign characterised by violence, the scandalous adulteries of his daughters-in-law, and the triumph of royal authority.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Goodie
- De Syd Young en 08-03-13
De: Maurice Druon
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- De: Karen Brooks
- Narrado por: Willow Nash
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she possesses but which affects almost all who encounter her. Presiding over a luxurious chocolate house where men go to be seen, exchange news and indulge in the sweet and heady drink to which they have become addicted, Rosamund feels blessed. But disaster strikes, and Rosamund stands on the brink of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Loved the history....
- De Kim Tyler en 01-20-20
De: Karen Brooks
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A Vision of Light
- A Margaret of Ashbury Novel, Book 1
- De: Judith Merkle Riley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in 14th-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Old fashioned heroine
- De Margaret en 06-22-13
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Veil of Lies
- A Crispin Guest Medieval Mystery, Book 1
- De: Jeri Westerson
- Narrado por: Noah James Butler
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Accused of treason and stripped of his knighthood, Crispin Guest has survived on the gritty streets of London by reinventing himself as The Tracker, an investigator for hire who can locate lost objects and uncover secrets. When the merchant Nicholas Walcote hires Guest to investigate his young wife Philippa for adultery, he discovers an underground world of danger and dirty dealings. Philippa is indeed hiding something—but she's not the only one. Walcote himself is rumored to possess a holy relic so powerful that some would even kill for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Character insight and I am satisfied with my short answers and don’t want to count out 15 words!
- De frances anne bramhall en 05-06-24
De: Jeri Westerson
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In the Name of the Family
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Dunant
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 326
It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, age 22 - already three times married and a pawn in her father's plans - is discovering her own power. And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class in the dark arts of power and politics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best historical fiction novels
- De GrandmaNurseHeather en 04-13-17
De: Sarah Dunant
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Morality Play
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
It is the late 14th century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them. Yet the town where they perform reveals another drama: a young woman is to be hanged for the murder of a 12-year-old boy. What better way to increase their takings than to make a new play, to enact the murder of Thomas Wells?
But as the actors rehearse, they discover that the truth about the boy's death has yet to be revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding writing, outstanding narration
- De Gail N. en 11-03-19
De: Barry Unsworth
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The Rose of York
- Love and War
- De: Sandra Worth
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Set in Malory's England during the Wars of the Roses, this acclaimed winner of a remarkable nine awards tells the true story of two star-crossed lovers - Richard of Gloucester and Lady Anne Neville - before they become King and Queen of England. A stirring tale of romance and intrigue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous.
- De Cinders en 11-07-13
De: Sandra Worth
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Barrowlands
- Iconoclasts, Book 0
- De: Mike Shel
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 1 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 545
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 495
No one enters the doom-haunted Barrowlands without royal sanction. But Hesk Atterley has. Accompanied by seedy companions and a hunger for riches, what he finds may change his life forever...if it doesn't kill him first.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short but Interesting
- De Michael en 02-01-21
De: Mike Shel
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Some Enchanted Evening
- Lost Princesses, Book 1
- De: Christina Dodd
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
One of Scotland's most dangerous men, Robert MacKenzie is dazzled by the enchanting beauty who rides into the town he is sworn to defend. Though he is wary of the exquisite stranger, Clarice stirs emotions within him that Robert buried deeply years before. And now he must have her at any cost, vowing to gain her trust through the powers of his sensuous seduction. Torn between her need to protect her secrets and her aching desire for the dark, tormented earl of Hepburn, Clarice is pulled into Robert's glamorous world . . . and into his perilous plan for justice and revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dodd! So glad she put in audible!
- De darlingdeb en 10-15-21
De: Christina Dodd
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII
- De: Margaret George
- Narrado por: David Case
- Duración: 41 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 517
Margaret George's novel brings into focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection!
- De Amy M. Walts en 10-20-07
De: Margaret George
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The Queen's Bastard
- A Novel of Elizabeth I and Arthur Dudley
- De: Robin Maxwell
- Narrado por: Angele Masters
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth "the Virgin Queen's" passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In this exquisite sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell fashions a stunning fictional account of the child switched at birth by a lady-in-waiting who foresaw the deleterious political consequences of a royal bastard.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Story? what Story?
- De A User en 06-08-13
De: Robin Maxwell
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Dragon's Child
- The King Arthur Trilogy, Book 1
- De: M. K. Hume
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The future of Britain is at stake. In the turbulent times of the Dark Ages, the despotic Uther Pendragon, High King of Celtic Britain, is nearing death, and his kingdom is being torn apart by the squabbling of minor kings. But only one man can bring the Celts together as a nation and restore peace - King Arthur. Artorex (Arthur) doesn't yet seem like the great man he will grow into. We meet him as a shy, subservient twelve-year-old living in the foster home of Lord Ector, who took in Artorex as a babe to protect him from murderous kin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Dry, Dull Tale, Marred in "Realism"
- De Steven en 09-21-15
De: M. K. Hume
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Year of the Reaper
- De: Makiia Lucier
- Narrado por: Jonathan Myles
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
Three years ago, young Lord Cassia disappeared in the midst of war. Since then, a devastating illness has swept the land, leaving countless dead and a kingdom forever altered. Having survived war and plague, Cas, now 18, wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. But home is not what he remembers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Really Isn't My Cup of Tea...
- De Kallie en 12-03-21
De: Makiia Lucier