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	<title>Playaway Historical Fiction</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2012 20:24:17 GMT</pubDate>

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			<title>Post Captain</title>
			<link>http://audiobook.playawaydigital.com/titles/post-captain</link>
	
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>O'Brian, Patrick </author>
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			<description><![CDATA["We've beat them before and we'll beat them again."  
  
In 1803, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtor's prison, and from a possible mutiny and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Stephen Maturin's struggles, with himself as much as with a proud and intelligent woman, are woven into Aubrey's, straining their friendship at times to the breaking point.   
  
The excitement continues in this second installment of Patrick O'Brian's highly acclaimed series.   
  
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was born Richard Patrick Russ in England. During WWII he and his wife were involved in British secret-service activities. After the war he changed his name to Patrick O'Brian. He began his career as a novelist, biographer, and translator. Starting in the 1990s, Mr. O'Brian, then in his seventies, achieved the critical and popular recognition that was his due.   
  
Earphones Award recipient Simon Vance was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio-news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage acting projects in the United States and Europe.]]></description>
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			<title>Suite Francaise</title>
			<link>http://audiobook.playawaydigital.com/titles/suite-francaise</link>
	
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Nemirovsky, Irene Smith, Translated by Sandra </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[By the early 1920s, when Ukranian-born Irene Nemirovsky began working on what would become Suite Francaise -- the first two parts of a planned five-part novel -- she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz; a month later she was dead. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic; her daughters took the manuscript with them into hiding.  
  
The first part, "A Storm in June," opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. In the second part, "Dolce," we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers cope as best they can.   
  
Suite Francaise is a singularly piercing evocation of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.   
  
Irene Nemirovsky (1903-1942) was born in Kiev and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne, she achieved success with her first novel, David Golder, which was followed by The Ball, The Flies of Autumn, and Dogs and Wolves. Reader Daniel Oreskes is an experienced stage actor whose film and television credits include The Thomas Crown Affiar, The Sopranos, and Law and Order. Reader Barbara Rosenblat has been named a "Voice of the Twentieth Century" by AudioFile Magazine.]]></description>
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			<title>Master and Commander</title>
			<link>http://audiobook.playawaydigital.com/titles/master-and-commander</link>
	
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>O'Brian, Patrick </author>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.  
  
"Patrick O'Brian can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time." -- Observer  
  
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was born Richard Patrick Russ in England. During WWII he and his wife were involved in British secret-service activities. After the war he changed his name to Patrick O'Brian. He began his career as a novelist, biographer, and translator. Starting in the 1990s, Mr. O'Brian, then in his seventies, achieved the critical and popular recognition that was his due.   
  
Earphones Award recipient Simon Vance was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio-news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage acting projects in the United States and Europe.]]></description>
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