Audiobooks Narrated by Corrie James

At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, 13-year-old Nanchu watched Red Guards burst into her home and arrest her parents, whom they tortured and jailed....

Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution.

Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon....

She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due.

The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history.

The 19th century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London.

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly's pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law.

While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered.

Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France.

Charlotte Bronte's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired.