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Editors Choice Top Historical Audiobooks of May 2024

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Editors Choice Top Historical Audiobooks of May 2024

Announcing the must-hear Historical audiobooks for May 2024.

Now's the Time by Larry Strauss

Part mystery, part adventure, completely heart-felt, “Now’s the Time” follows jazz trumpeter Didi Heron as she searches for the lost tape of her father’s last gig before his tragic death. A celebration of family ties and musical legacies, “Now’s the Time” is a meditation on jazz and jazz players. Drawing inspiration from the lives of musical giants, Strauss has created a fictional work rooted in historical fact, jazz rhythms and harmonies and emotional reality.
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Once in a Blood Moon by Dorothea Hubble Bonneau

According to the Kirkus Review: "Once in a Blood Moon elegantly articulates a young woman's precarious position between white and black society. Overall, this novel explores issues of equality and personal freedom in thought-provoking ways."
Once in a Blood Moon: a-can't-put-it-down-page-turner about love, betrayal and redemption.
Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia is the daughter of a wealthy African American planter and a social climbing mother who can pass for white. Balancing on the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave the way to her success. Her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by prejudiced officials eager to seize the plantation. When Alexandra becomes the heiress of Heaven Hill plantation, she has a target on her back. Powerful people want to seize the plantation for their own. Alexandra flees to save her life.
2020 Best Books Award Winner for African American Fiction; 2020 American Fiction Award Winner; New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Fiction; 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival, Honorable Mention for Fiction, Five-Star Reader’s Choice selection; 2020 Chanticleer Goethe Award, First Place for Historical Fiction after 1740.
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The Imaziɣen Druid by Ravek Hunter

Khulani, a young warrior of the Imaziɣen tribe, knew he had a special gift from an early age.
Living a simple life with his tribespeople following the herds of Hartebeest across the endless grasslands that they called their home, Khulani was already a successful Hunt Master with the potential to be a great tribal leader. So far, life was good for Khulani.
And then his world was inexplicably turned upside-down.
From the dark and mysterious Uari Ljanub Mountain Range comes a predatory animal with an appetite for human flesh to terrorize his village. Khulani suddenly finds himself facing a violent struggle with an unnatural beast that defies his untrained powers. Desperation compels him to take action that will result in the fight of his life and expose even deeper mysteries about himself that he could never have anticipated.
As if the threat of a deranged carnivore were not enough, two mysterious strangers abruptly appear in his hour of need. Strange forces and a revelation that shakes the whole of the Imaziɣen people instigates a series of events that sends Khulani on an expedition across two continents. He is bound to seek out answers far to the south that will test his gift and determine his fate.
Along the way, Khulani will experience the strange ways of civilizations he knows little about. There are unexpected dangers outside the sheltered existence of his tribal life that he must overcome to survive the journey and learn the truth of his destiny. What Khulani finds will change his life forever.
An action adventure fantasy epic set in North Africa during the time of Atlantis.
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The Card Sharp by Eric B. Ruark

A Card Sharp/Con man works the Mississippi River on one of the first class steamboats and plans to relieve as many people as possible of their gold and cash. But the arrival of a wealthy planter and his slave, changes the card sharps plans.
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No God West of Hays by Eric B. Ruark

In the 1870s, a young John Wesley Hardin is just beginning to develop his gunslinging reputation. At eighteen, he is already a killer and in Abilene adds to his legend by shooting a man for snoring. He goes on the run pursued by the town's marshal, the formidable Wild Bill Hickok. While on the run, Hardin falls in with a vicious gang of outlaws and falls in love with one of their hostages. He realizes that there are too many of them for him to take on alone. His only option is to ask Hickok for help.
This story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
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