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Title: Song of the Exile

Author: Kiana Davenport

Narrator: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich with sensuous detail.

Members Reviews:

If you read just one book this year, read this!

This book is worthy of 10 stars. I read constantly, and this is the best book I have read in a long time. I just finished it and I am already thinking of reading it again. It is an entirely satisfying epic revolving around how two Hawaiian families were impacted by WWII. It is about love and pride and ancient legends and music. It travels from Honolulu to New Orleans to Paris to Shanghai to small Pacific islands. I never knew the extent of Japanese atrocities to women during the war. There are many scenes that are hard to stomach. The reader cares about the characters, who emerged from their ordeals with differing degrees of damage. The writing itself is literary, metaphorical, philosophical, soaring at times. I don't know what I will read next. This book is a very tough act to follow. If you read just one book this year, this is the one. You will not be disappointed.

Still haunted by this book a year later...

Of all the novels I have ever read (I'm over 50 and have read a lot of books) this one has haunted me and stayed with me. I read it about a year ago and it is still with me. I was just thinking about it again so I decided to write a review saying so. The prose and language are beautiful. I work with a human trafficking organization and this author's descriptions have helped me understand some of what our girls have experienced at the hands of men. The broken stay broken unless God Himself intervenes. The men are just as broken. Don't read it if you can't take it. But the truth is...it's a brutal subject and the author writes about it with absolutely poetic language. Incredible skill.

I admire and love this author writing style

I admire and love this author writing style, and am in the process of reading everything Kiana Davenport has written. For this reason I'll probably always give her work 5 stars. Her authenticity and research are a marvel. Her description of the native Hawaiian culture, her description of early jazz in this book leave me breathless. If I had a concern for this book, it was the relentless pressure on her characters to the degree I felt they were a bit manipulated to make the story arc work, though they were so clearly drawn that I agonized for them all the way through. Kiana definitely has an agenda in her books, and it's an important and valuable one, but in this book I felt at times that it overshadowed her characters and story. It's wonderful to read the fierce and extravagant voice of the writer though, and I would recommend the experience to anyone who loves someone so dedicated to her work.

,Great value. Fascinating, illuminating, rich.

I assume this story is based on what actually happened. If so, I learned a lot that has never been told about Pearl Harbor, the history of Hawaiians, and the atrocities that happened in the war, not just in Germany, but also in Japan. If you, like me, shy away from true horror stories, don't let that stop you this time.

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Titolo: La cattedrale del mare

Autore: Ildefonso Falcones

Narratore: Ruggero Andreozzi

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 21 hrs and 28 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-05-17

Editore: Salani

Categoria: Fiction, Historical

Riepilogo Editore:

Barcellona, XIV secolo. Nel cuore dell'umile quartiere della Ribera gli occhi curiosi del piccolo Arnau sono catturati dalle maestose mura di una grande chiesa in costruzione. Un incontro decisivo, poiché la storia di Santa Maria del Mar sarà il cardine delle tormentate vicende della sua esistenza.

Figlio di un servo fuggiasco, nella capitale catalana Arnau trova rifugio e quella sospirata libertà che a tutt'oggi incarna lo spirito di Barcellona, all'epoca in pieno fermento: i vecchi istituti feudali sono al tramonto, mentre mercanti e banchieri sono in ascesa, sempre più influenti nel determinare le sorti della città, impegnata in aspre battaglie per il controllo dei mari. Intanto l'azione dell'Inquisizione minaccia la non facile convivenza fra cristiani, musulmani ed ebrei...

Personaggio di inusuale tempra e umanità, Arnau non esita a dedicarsi con entusiasmo al grande progetto della "cattedrale del popolo". E all'ombra di quelle torri gotiche dovrà lottare contro fame, ingiustizie e tradimenti, ataviche barriere religiose, guerre, peste, commerci ignobili e indomabili passioni, ma soprattutto per un amore che i pregiudizi del tempo vorrebbero condannare alle brume del sogno...

Un'opera in cui avventura e sentimento si uniscono al romanzo di una città, protagonista anch'essa di una straordinaria vicenda corale, restituita nella drammaticità dei suoi momenti cruciali così come nella sua vivacissima quotidianità, in un'ambientazione capace di ricreare, con limpidezza superiore alla penna di uno storico, luci e ombre di un Medioevo di ineguagliabile fascino.

©2007 Longanesi (P)2017 Adriano Salani Editore

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Un viaggio indietro nel tempo...

Un libro che mi ha presa, mi ha rapita e catapultata in un tempo così lontano che descriverlo in un modo tanto "reale" non può che essere opera di un artista della scrittura. La vita di Arnau, un bimbo che già in fasce ha subito ingiustizie inaudite. Un padre, un eroe nel suo piccolo, che affronterà fame, paura, umiliazioni per garantirgli la libertà. Un adolescenza che si rivelerà più dura di una vita adulta. Amore sfortunato, ma puro e onesto. L'odiata Inquisizione, che tanti cattolici ora si dimenticano sia esistita. Colpi di scena e intrecci sorprendenti si alternano alla narrazione della vita di questo ragazzo, adottato dalla Madonna del Mare. Un libro che ti apre il cuore per versarci dentro un fiume di emozioni. Bello.

Five Stars

Fantastic story

Five Stars

Veramente bello dall'inizio alla fine. Mai scontato mai banale.

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Titre: Le grand voyage (Les enfants de la Terre 4)

Auteur: Jean M. Auel

Narrateur: Delphine Saley

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 35 hrs and 23 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-16-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans ce quatrième volet de la saga Les Enfants de la Terre, Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar laissent derrière eux la chaleureuse tribu des chasseurs de mammouths pour continuer leur traversée des steppes immenses du continent européen. Le couple ne manque pas de susciter l'étonnement sur son passage. En effet, Ayla et Jondalar se déplacent à cheval, en compagnie d'un loup apprivoisé. Or, les peuples qu'ils rencontrent vivent de chasse et de cueillette, et n'ont jamais vu d'animaux domestiques. D'où ce couple étrange tient-il donc ses pouvoirs ?

En quête d'un lieu qui deviendrait le foyer de leur amour, Ayla et Jondalar feront maintes découvertes au cours de ce voyage initiatique à travers un monde inconnu, dangereux et grandiose.

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©2002 Presses de la Cité. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Alexis Champon (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Title: 2 - 2 [Dashengkui: The Wealthiest Transnational Trading Firm of the Qing Dynasty 2]

Author: - - Mei Feng, - - Wang Lusha

Narrator: - - Zhou Jianlong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: BOVCM

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin.

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Title: A Rustle of Silk

Author: Alys Clare

Narrator: Richard Attlee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-17

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1603. Former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner is attempting to re-establish himself as a physician in rural Devon but it's not easy to gain the locals' trust and a series of disturbing incidents convinces him that at least one person does not welcome his presence.

Called out to examine a partially decomposed body found beside the river, Gabriel discovers he has a personal connection to the dead man. Teaming up with coroner Theophilus Davey to find out how the man died, Gabriel uncovers some darker aspects of the lucrative silk trade which operates from nearby Plymouth. It soon becomes frighteningly apparent that the people closest to him have been keeping dangerous secrets.

Members Reviews:

Overall Good

I enjoyed the time period and the protagonist. Most of the book held my interest extremely well, but toward the end, some information was provided more than once and a second POV appeared that I didn't really think needed to be there. In a couple of places, information was awkwardly provided. I'd rather the information come in a different way, like through dialogue. The epilogue went on too long.

Overall, this is a very good story, between 3.5 to 4.0 stars.

New Alys Clare series

I have been a fan of the Hawkenlye series and also of the Aelf Fen series. I am looking forward to subsequent books in this new one. This book introduces the readers to interesting characters. They are not perfect, they are flawed, and we have yet to learn more about them.

Alys Clare in a new mode

This was a well-written but sometimes challenging book, not because it was difficult to follow but because some of the violence raised some unsettling moral dilemmas. Remembering the era in which it was being related, and the role of women at that time, helped to reconcile those dilemmas to some extent.

Exciting, Believable Mystery

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There are many twists and turns to this plot. There is the young doctor home from the sea. His family is glad. For life is full of peril. Then there is his newly married sister. In spite of all of this. Things are not as they appear to be. I don't want to ruin the story. You'll have to read it yourself!

but loved the book and the period and hope to see ...

your headline says "stuart england" but the series is set in the 17th century. It was the elizabethan england.

but loved the book and the period and hope to see more of this series. I have read all of the Hawkenlye books

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Title: To Die in Spring

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Ralf Rothmann, Shaun Whiteside

Narrator: Tim Bruce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son - the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel - is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his son to fill in the gaps himself, rightly or wrongly, with what he can piece together of his father's early life.

This, then, is the story of Walter and his dangerously outspoken friend Friedrich Caroli, 17-year-old trainee milkers on a dairy farm in northern Germany who are tricked into volunteering for the army during the spring of 1945: the last, and, in many ways, the worst, months of the war. The men are driven to the point of madness by what they experience, and when Friedrich finally deserts his post, Walter is forced to do the unthinkable.

Critic Reviews:

"Directly confronting issues of responsibility, accountability, and legacy, this is an undeniably powerful work." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Members Reviews:

Coming of age in war

On his deathbed, Walterâs mind returns to the war. Walter was a dairy farmer, just turning 18 and working for the Reich Food Estate thanks to his inability to shoot straight during his term in the Hitler Youth Corps. Unfortunately for Walter, the war is nearing an end and Hitler needs bodies to move forward and die, followed by more bodies who move forward and die, so Walter is drafted and sent to Hungary, where the Waffen SS is trying to stop the Russian advance. But because he has a driverâs license, Walter ferries supplies rather than fighting at the front. He fires only one shot during the war, but it is a shot he will never forget.

After Walter has a moment of heroism, he is rewarded with the opportunity to search for his cruel fatherâs grave. That quest takes him even closer to the Russian front, where the consequences of war are stark. Hopelessness pervades the novel. Civilians lose their homes and towns, deserters flee the front only to face execution. The Germans are fighting âa war for cynics, who donât believe in anything but might makes rightâ â the same thinking that starts every war. The war pits enemy against enemy but also friend against friend when Walter is ordered to be âstronger than your own scruples.â

The horrors of war are seen from the perspective of soldiers fighting and dying for the losing side. Some of those horrors are inflicted by the soldiers, following orders from officers, on civilians suspected of being partisan, or just to satisfy their blood lust. And some horrors are inflicted on soldiers by their own officers, as the story illustrates in its most dramatic moment. Walter comes of age with an act that no teenager (or adult) should be forced to undertake, and then swallows that moment, concealing it deep within his being for the rest of his life â a fact that is revealed in the opening pages and again, indirectly, through song lyrics that Walter's son recounts in an epilog.

One of the storyâs themes is that life moves on, even as individual lives end. Walter believes there will always be a need for milkers, but learns at the warâs end that he will soon be displaced by machines, his three years of training leading only to personal obsolescence.

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Titolo: L'eredità dell'abate nero (Secretum Saga 1)

Autore: Marcello Simoni

Narratore: Marcello Simoni

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-27-17

Editore: Emons Edizioni

Valutazioni: 3 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Fiction, Historical

Riepilogo Editore:

Firenze 1459. Un ricco mercante viene ucciso nella cripta di Santa Trìnita in circostanze misteriose, e dell'omicidio viene accusato Tigrinus, un ladro che ha assistito al misfatto. Barattata la vita con una perigliosa missione segreta, l'astuto ladro s'imbarcherà verso Oriente alla rocambolesca ricerca di un prezioso manoscritto su cui ha messo gli occhi Cosimo de' Medici. Quale sarà la vera identità del temibile abate nero che si nasconde nel monte Athos? E chi è veramente Tigrinus?

© Marcello Simoni (P)2017 Emons Italia srl

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trama accattivante, riviste dal narratore

Non condivido la scelta dell'autore di voler anche essere la voce narrante, pessima, sconsiglio di comprare l'audiobook, probabilmente meglio comprare il libro. Spesso, infastidito dalla voce cantilenante del narratore, ho avuto la tentazione di interrompere l'ascolto. Di conseguenza, la trama ha perso di interesse

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Title: Roisch III [Russian Edition]

Subtitle: We Are Ours, We Are New...

Author: Konstantin Kalbazov

Narrator: Oleg Volya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-17

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

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Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: Roosevelt's Boys

Author: John C. Horst

Narrator: Wally Schrass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-17

Publisher: John C Horst

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

John Horst traces the adventures of a cast of characters, both real and fictional, who answered the call to put things right in Cuba.

Theodore Roosevelt, redefining himself as a soldier and warleader; Jonathan Whelihan, the Arizona wrangler, hungry to prove himself and gain freedom from the bonds of an overbearing father; Rocky Killebrew, Jonathan's adopted brother, struggling with a proclivity for strong drink; nurse Clara Maass, seeking adventure and fulfillment while serving God and country, and many of the historical personages of this larger-than-life history - Bucky O'Neill, William McGinty, and Black Jack Pershing, among others.

John Hay called it "a splendid little war", but Roosevelt's Boys brings to bear that no war is little, or splendid, regardless of duration or scale.

Members Reviews:

beautifully written account of Teddy Roosevelt and the colorful cast ...

If you would be drawn to a well researched, beautifully written account of Teddy Roosevelt and the colorful cast of characters that might have surrounded him, the latest John Horst novel is a must read. The eccentric, courageous, and brilliant Roosevelt, although given top billing in this drama about the Spanish American War and his troop of Rough Riders, is not really the protagonist. That role is shared by Sean Whelihan, an Arizona wrangler, his adopted brother, Rocky Killebrew, nurse Clara Maass, a steel-spined, but compassionate advocate of her wounded and disease-stricken patients. In describing he impact of war on them and the people with whom they share their lives, Horst weaves a compelling tapestry not only of heroism, but the common traits of the human condition, love, hate, idealism, cynicism, compassion and violence. In a world made noisy and distracted by social media, sensationalism, and self-indulgence, Horst's novel is a welcome return to an era when time-honored value systems directed human motivation and behavior.

Wonderful book by a wonderful writer.

This is a wonderfully written book by one of my very favorite authors. Like all his books, it's smooth, easy to read, entertaining, well researched, and thought provoking with a cast of marvelous characters. Mr. Horst's portrayal of Clara Maass,the gutsy compassionate nurse, especially touched me.

If you haven't read Horst yet you owe it to yourself to give him a try and if you've read some of his other great books like The Mule Tamer you will not be disappointed with this one.

TR's Boys and Girls

A thoughtful, well-told story about Arizona cowboys caught up in the great adventure in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. But it also is an account of the nurses from the East who volunteer to care for the Rough Rider wounded. So the book might have been named Rooseveltâs Boys and Girls. Some of the most touching episodes involve the love affairs between the Arizonans and the girls they left at home and between the nurses and the soldiers, both wounded and well. Combat scenes are gripping, especially action against enemy snipers. Colonel Roosevelt is often among his men and women, a caring commander who is approachable and close to his charges. A page-turner from a master at historical fiction.

A Splendid Tale of Derring-Do!

John C. Horst has done it again. Rooseveltâs Boys takes characters who would be perfectly at home in the Old West and drops them straight them into the American military expedition into Cuba in 1898.

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Title: Fifth Gospel - A Novel (Rosicrucian Quintet)

Author: Adriana Koulias

Narrator: James Gillies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-17

Publisher: Zuriel Press Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The destiny of one man. The fate of the world.

From the acclaimed author of Temple of the Grail, The Seal and The Sixth Key comes a singular achievement, a novel that transcends the four known gospels to unveil a secret kept hidden for centuries: the secret of the two Jesus Children.

It is 1244 and the Castle of Montsegur is under siege. Trapped in the small fortress perched high in the Pyrenees, Cathars and their supporters fight to avoid death on the pyre at the hands of the Catholic Church. Amidst the carnage and mayhem of war, a woman mysteriously appears to Cathar Perfect, Bertrand Marty; a woman with a tale to tell. Two worlds collide, Judea and France, as she unfolds a story of shattering proportions, revealing secrets, both dangerous and devastating, which have been hidden for centuries in the annals of a Fifth gospel.

A story of courage and sacrifice, of faith beyond life, and of astounding secrets buried in time.

Members Reviews:

What a journey!

This novel is set to be a classic and this narration really does it justice.

I have to admit I have never listened to anything like it and I don't expect I will do so again. It will live with me forever. It is a book to kindle a fire in the heart, but it also makes you think.

The narration is so sensitive and seamless you forget you are listening and you begin to live it! Inspiring, uplifting - an awakening!

Wonderfully read - A true Joy

What made the experience of listening to Fifth Gospel - A Novel (Rosicrucian Quintet) the most enjoyable?

The Story is of course captivating. This is not just the normal biblical events associated with Jesus and the Christian origins. This is the story behind the story - as captured so wonderfully by the Author in her Novel.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The voice timbre and the pacing is superb. Just sit down and listen to the most wonderful story on earth.