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Title: Home Again

Author: Michael Kenneth Smith

Narrator: J Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-14

Publisher: Michael Kenneth Smith

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The nation is divided, and a bloody Civil War looms on the horizon. Two young men enlist, each with very different strengths, weaknesses, and reasons for service. They end up on opposite sides of the battle, though, in the end, they learn largely the same lessons about honor, human nature, and the horrors of war.

Before the Civil War had even begun, these young men, Zach and Luke, had already crossed paths while fishing in eastern Tennessee. After they parted ways, they never expected to later be pitted against each other in war - but, when Zach joined the Northern cause and Luke joined the Southern, that's exactly what happened.

On the battlefields, each boy learns invaluable lessons about himself, and both contribute to the outcome of battles and, ultimately, to the war. Their lives are forever changed by all that they encounter, but their story does not alter the actual course of history in any way.

Home Again is a rare piece of historical fiction that recounts Civil War experiences in strict compliance to recorded historic detail. Yet as historically accurate as it is, it is also incredibly insightful and compelling, and is sure to entertain both your heart and your mind.

Members Reviews:

"Home Again" Blends Fiction and Fact

The research that went into this page turner book about the Civil War is amazing. Michael Kenneth Smith has written a fictional story of two boys, Zach and Luke, who are drawn into the complexities and anguish of war, one fighting for the North, one for the South. Each boy is eager to join the fight, but their innocence is shattered as the story takes them (and the reader) through the mayhem of wartime experience. Smith tells their story empowered by the accuracy of historical fact which is what makes this story so compelling. We learn about the battles, the leadership on both sides, the primitive ways of communication, methods of fighting, and details about day to day survival of weary fighters as well as the bravery of wounded soldiers and the dedication of the doctors who try to help them. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a powerful story with a strong jolt of truth. I'll be looking for this author's next book.

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The alternating chapters following their paths during the conflict keeps the book flowing nicely. Historically correct in the context of the Civil ...

This novel follows the lives of two young men who meet by chance and end up on opposite sides in the Civil War....they encounter each other at least twice during the war but are unaware of it. The alternating chapters following their paths during the conflict keeps the book flowing nicely. Historically correct in the context of the Civil Wart these two fictional characters are well developed. The description of the chaos and loss at Shiloh is particularly riveting. This is worth taking the time to read.

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It's unmistakable from the opening pages that Home Again is ...

It's unmistakable from the opening pages that Home Again is a fresh and engrossing examination of a war that many Americans know intimately when Smith introduces Luke and Zach in conventional home environments wildly different from that which they soon encounter. Casting these imagined characters in an otherwise meticulously researched authentic account of America's most ruinous war, an oft attempted technique, works for author Smith owing to his evident diligence.

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Titel: Kinder der Freiheit (Die Jahrhundert-Saga 3)

Autor:: Ken Follett

Erzähler: Johannes Steck

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-12-14

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Berlin, 1961. Rebecca Hoffmann erfährt durch Zufall, dass ihr Mann bei der STASI arbeitet, und damit bricht ihre ganze Welt zusammen. Ihr Schicksal - und das eines ganzen Volkes - scheint besiegelt, als die Regierung eine Mauer erbauen lässt, die jede Flucht unmöglich machen soll. Doch weder Rebecca, noch ihre Kinder geben auf! Und sie bleiben nicht alleine...

Boston, 1961. George Jake und Verena Marquand, zwei junge Schwarze, erfahren am eigenen Leib, was Rassendiskriminierung bedeutet - und wie falsch angebliche Freunde sein können. Wem kann man in einer von Misstrauen und Vorurteilen beherrschten Gesellschaft trauen, wem nicht? Und kann der Baptistenpastor Martin Luther King tatsächlich Hoffnung bringen?

Ken Follett spannt mit seiner spannenden Familiensaga gekonnt einen Bogen zwischen den großen Freiheitsbewegungen in den USA, in Russland und vor allem in Deutschland, die schließlich 1989 im FALL DER MAUER gipfeln.

©2014 Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co.KG, Köln (P)2014 Lübbe Audio

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Finally understood what happend ....

I grew up in the time (born 1958), this book is about. I remember the dead of JFK, because my dad and my mother were shocked immensely!

In school I never understood, what the history teacher was talking about (cold war, etc etc), .. reading this book, let me understand, what really happened and because I know about the research, Follet is doing (and he let's do it) I believe, we can "believe" what the book is telling us!

Not word for word, but as a summary! I never did a review on a book I read, but THIS is worth it! My son is a young architect in Cape Town and one day he had to do a research about a house. Later he learned, that the owner of that house was Ken Follet. At that time, our son was reading "Fall of Giants" and later "Winter of the world", so the connection was done for ever!

Ken Follet will ever be one of our best loved writers! I am German and my English is not so good, but I hope understandably!

Die Trilogie ist sehr zu empfehlen. Sehr interessant geschrieben ...

Die Trilogie ist sehr zu empfehlen. Sehr interessant geschrieben.

Ich habe sehr viel erfahren und gelernt über die Weltkriege ,so wie die verschiedenen Ländern, die politisch in der Welt Geschichte mit zu bestimmen hatten.

Es ist die Geschichte der verschiedenen Familien, verbunden mit Liebe und zusammen halt.

Ein tolles Ende einer Trilogie

Der dritte Teil einer tollen Trilogie. Alle drei sind empfehlenswert.

Too much graphic sex

Too much graphic sex

I am no prude my wife and i have 6 children so we know about sex

The adoration of the kennedys was a bit

Much my wife has vowed never to read anothet of his books

Super

Genauso wie die anderen Baender der Trilogie, auch hier findet man historische Genauigkeit die mit faszinierende persoenliche Geschichten kombiniert wird. Hoechst empfehlenswert.

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Title: The Cielo

Subtitle: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany

Author: Paul Salsini

Narrator: Michael Pantozzi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-14

Publisher: Paul Salsini

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ordered by the Germans to evacuate, a group of Italian villagers flees to a farmhouse in the beautiful hills of Tuscany. As the war rages around them, the refugees confront betrayal by one villager, fearlessly house an escaped prisoner, and survive a raid by the Nazis. A young girl finds love, two boys become heroes, and secrets are revealed before an unthinkable event changes their lives forever.

Members Reviews:

Narrator annoying and deadpan

I probably won't finish this book. The narrator's lack of emphasis and overall recording quality sound like an early version of a Librivox recording.

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Title: Shark

Author: Will Self

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

4th May, 1970. President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead in the grounds of Kent State University.

On the other side of the Atlantic, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill advised LSD trip.

Five years later, sitting in a nearby cinema watching Steven Spielberg's Jaws, Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day.

Members Reviews:

Ideal for audio

Will Self 'difficult' books are shown in their true light by audio renditions, packed with humour, satire and deep insights into the human condition...in my opinion Will Self can not be rated too highly.

Amazing novel incredibly enjoyable narration.

Shark would sit on my shelf alongside Gravity's Rainbow, Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse 5.

Self's novel reads (is read ) as a continuous stream, it appears disjointed at first but soon one can recognise where the story has picked up as the style becomes familiar.

Keeble's narration is outstanding. He seems to have had a hoot reading the character's varied voices. I had a scream listening.

Highly recommended for those who enjoy challenging, unconventional but highly rewarding prose.

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Title: Silver Winds

Author: Gary McCarthy

Narrator: Stephanie Brush

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

They were on their way to the richest silver strike in human history. Six people who met in a Sierra blizzard enroute to the infamous Comstock Lode. Prim wallflower Holly York, and beautiful Julia Matson with a secret no one could forgive. Clayton James, hopelessly caught between the world of whites and Indians, and brilliant thwarted inventor Glenn Donovan. Fay Taylor, with a singing voice from heaven, and her brother Dade, evil enough to send them all straight to hell. Who among them could survive the failures, successes and the dangers that lay ahead...

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Title: Quartet for the End of Time

Author: Johanna Skibsrud

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The audiobook takes us on an unforgettable journey beginning during the 1930s Bonus Army riots, when World War I veteran Arthur Sinclair is falsely accused of conspiracy and then disappears. His absence will haunt his son, Douglas, as well as Alden and Sutton Kelly, the children of a powerful U.S. congressman, as they experience - each in different ways - the dynamic political social changes that took place leading up to and during World War II. From the New Deal projects through which Douglas, newly fatherless, makes his living to Sutton's work as a journalist, to Alden's life as a code breaker and a spy, each character is haunted by the past and is searching for love, hope, and redemption in a world torn apart by chaos and war. Through the lives of these characters, as well as those of their lovers, friends, and enemies, the novel transports us from the Siberian Expedition of World War I to the underground world of a Soviet spy in the 1920s and 1930s, to the occultist circle of P. D. Ouspensky and London during the Blitz, to the German prison camp where Messiaen originally composed and performed his famous Quartet for the End of Time.

At every turn, this rich and ambitious novel tells some of the less well-known stories of 20th-century history with epic scope and astonishing power, revealing at every turn the ways in which history and memory tend to follow us, and in which absence has a palpable presence.

Members Reviews:

You'll be sorry . . .

if you read this book. Almost a complete waste of time. There is a story in the first half that is all but lost by the end. This author needed a much better editor. She also must love to obscure. She lingers in the meaning of life and death. Sometimes I wished I were dead.

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Title: There Is No Otherwise

Author: Ardin Lalui

Narrator: Aaron Connor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-14

Publisher: Kemah Bay Marketing LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This is the critically acclaimed and emotionally charged story of JP McGrath, a young cowboy who at 16 finds himself working on the Tobin Ranch east of El Paso. JP has been forced to grow up fast, life has been hard, but his biggest test is yet to come. On a night out drinking with friends, a chain of events is set in motion as violent as it is unstoppable.

Already, JP has been hailed as having entered the ranks of the most interesting, sympathetic and poignant characters to populate the lonesome, literary West. This beautifully designed series of stories, of which this is the first, is fast becoming one of the most anticipated western collections of recent years.

Members Reviews:

Not for nothing, this pleasing short story...

Not for nothing, this pleasing short story ( 44 pages ) reminded me of Jay and the Americans 1964 song 'Come a Little Bit Closer'. All the elements are there, but still the ending is somewhat different. My question to author Ardin Lalui is why did you stop the story on page 44? I was really getting into the content when it ended. Why? It's too bad, because the book seemed like it was ready to ignite. If you are not ready to write a full novel, try a 200 pager like Stephen King's 'The Mist'. Not every author can write a 54 page masterpiece like Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', or the 44 page classic 'Rip Van Winkle'. Your story displays pending talent and I look forward to your first novel. I also found the lack of quotation marks refreshing, while substituting them with dash marks somewhat original.

The story centers around three young men driving a pickup through Texas to the small town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. They all work at the Tobin Ranch as cowhands, but are treated as the sons of the Tobins. They are depressed about Mrs.Tobin's mortal illness and Mr. Tobin's subsequent hard drinking. They are looking for a good time! They pull into town and enter a drab bar named La Luna. On page sixteen, JP, the youngest of the three friends, looks around and says to himself "...it was about the kind of place where nothing good would ever happen to them..." This is where I stop, you will have to read this winsome short story for yourself to find out what happens next.

Mr. Lalui does flash the reader his budding talent, and I would like to see more extensive work from him in the future. Even though he only had 44 pages to work with, it's surprising how much empathy this reviewer had for the characters. There wasn't much time for the author to give the reader a warm feeling about anything, but somehow he succeeded. Kudos to this promising Irish author, who writes westerns!

A short piece about isolation punctured by pleasure and violence

I know Las Cruses, El Paso and the outlying towns pretty well. Even today Las Cruces has the feel portrayed in this story (unless you go up the hill to end of town with the shopping mall and Golden Corral). The story seems to take place in the past, but maybe not, hard to say and that gives it a timeless quality. As the other reviews have pointed out it's a piece about the characters and the setting. The plot centers around a confrontation and it's lack of alternatives to anything but violence.

Different

If you want to read a short piece that doesn't fit into any prescribed format, this is for you. I think I can say I enjoyed it, but I'm not positive.

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Title: Tommy Red Feather

Author: Roger Erickson, David Erickson

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-14

Publisher: David Erickson LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

I was living with my parents in pre-Civil War Illinois when they are killed by an outlaw. I killed the outlaw and was forced to flee Illinois to avoid retribution from his family who are known robbers and killers. In Joplin, Missouri, I meet Mary Wilson, a 15-year-old runaway from an abusive orphanage. We travel to Phoenix where we meet Tommy Red Feather, a nine-year-old orphaned Indian boy living by his wits. The three of us form a family.

Members Reviews:

outstanding book

this is a great western. story is great narration even better, must have to any good collection

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Title: Devil in the North Woods

Author: Walt Shiel

Narrator: Bryant Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-14

Publisher: Jacobsville Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

What would you do if a wildfire swept through your area without warning?

In October 1908, a wildfire swept through northeast Michigan and consumed 900 homes and two million acres of farms and forest. Despite the valiant efforts of the farmers, lumbermen, and shopkeepers, only Lake Huron could quench the flames. With no fire watch towers, spotting aircraft, telephones, or organized firefighting and only limited telegraph, warnings were too few and too late.

Devil in the North Woods accurately depicts the fire's genesis, growth, and aftermath. The story's real-life protagonist, 10-year-old Henry Hardies, survived the fire but family did not. Relying on Henry's personal recollections and author Walt Shiel's faithful recreation of time and place, the book vividly brings Henry's ordeal to life.

Devil in the North Woods contrasts the terror of nature's destruction with a chronicle of family, love, sorrow, and recovery. The story leaves the reader buoyed by faith in the resilience of the human spirit and belief in love's ability to germinate amid the ashes of ruin.

Members Reviews:

Historical

A startling look into a great lakes tragedy that was somewhat buried in the past.

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Title: The Fall of Light

Author: Niall Williams

Narrator: Gerry O'Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-14

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home -- and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further.

But if a combination of choice and chance cause the five to separate and scatter, each to their own road, then a series of casual encounters and coincidences offer some hope for reunion and -- in Francis's case -- redemption.

Set in Ireland in the mid-19th century, The Fall of Light traces the footsteps of the five Foley men. With elegant, elegiac prose, Niall Williams guides his characters -- and his readers -- through hazard and hardship, friendship, love and death, through to Europe, America and Africa . . . and home again.

Members Reviews:

THE POWER OF UNDYING LOVE & HOPE

Never give up on your dream characterizes my description of this book. It is very well written, full of depth and description about the plight of not just one family but of humanity at a time in life that was brutally ravaged by economic depression, blight and famine. The term: "And this too shall pass" seems not to apply as the family goes around and around in circles of nightmarish hardship. But love truly does prevail. This is an excellent reading!

Beautifully written

It is wonderful to find a writer who can make you sigh because their writing and story are equally beautiful. Niall Williams is this writer.

writing beautiful and otherworldly

Niall Williams is possessed of an ability rare. The current and push of his stories roll out like a mighty river with currents and eddies in combination creating a moving, compelling tale carrying in its swell the lives, loves and stories of man.

it will make you long for Ireland

Very nice story

A good summer read

Teige is a memorable character

Enough heartache to make you feel your irish

Five Stars

Enthralling.