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Title: Dynasty 15: The Reckoning

Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrator: Terry Wale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1816. Napoleon has at last been defeated, but victory brings no peace to the English. The cost of war strikes deep into the country - there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of the unemployed, wages tumble and the bread price soars - and hungry men are easily stirred to protest.

Amid this turbulence, Heloise and James stand guard over Morland Place - for its spirit as much as its fortunes - when a tragic accident strikes at the very heart of the family, taking one person on whom they all depend. On top of this, a devastating scandal brings the Morland name into the glare of public notoriety, so that Sophie and Rosamund are forced to learn the difference between real love and its enticing but dangerous illusion.

Members Reviews:

GET HOOKED

The Morland Dynasty series is excellent. I recommend starting with the 1st book and get "hooked" on the history, characters and the time period. The stories are mostly female based, neverless, the writer's talent is relating a view of each time in English history. Of course the famiy increases with children, animals, and friends living joys, sorrows and daily events. There are 30 plus stories in the series so its for the "long haul" reader - oh, 1 of these books always goes with me on a vacation or a car trip. The Morlands are a family who have become my friends.

Another book in a great series

Have been reading the entire Morland family chronicles and thoroughly enjoy all the books. Believe this is #16 out of 35. There are wonderful characters (some not nice at all) and I feel I'm learning a lot about the history of England. The poor classes were treated so unfairly that I want to read about positive changes in the next boo.

Morland Dynasty series entry gets 5 stars

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is simply amazing. I can't begin to see how she has turned out such consistently excellent books in so many voices and set in so many eras. The Reckoning continues the Morland Dynasty story with all of the detail, depth and quality of the earlier books in the series. This series is a fascinating contribution to understanding British and human history.

Loved it

I am enjoying this series very much. I have already purchased the next two books so I won't have to wait to start the next one.

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Title: Dynasty 14: The Campaigners

Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrator: Terry Wale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1815: Napoleon's escape from Elba and the preparations for battle entangle the Morland family in a web of romance and heartbreak. The Allied Army is gathering in Flanders, and where the army is, the fashionable world must go - so London society hastens to Brussels to enjoy the most exhilarating Season ever. For Heloise it brings a renewed acquaintance with her former suitor, to Duc de Veslne-d'Estienne; while Rosamund must finally come to terms with her feelings for her cousin Marcus; and for Sophie, a meeting with enigmatic French major could well alter her future. But as romance flourishes in a warlike atmosphere, the looming shadow of battle only makes the dancers whirl more feverishly, and when the Army marches out to face the might of the French at Waterloo, one question is in every heart: which of them will not come back?

Members Reviews:

found the book very interesting. have found the whole series so far easy to read. the only flaw would be that the author needs t

Disliked the amount of spelling errors. Loved the historical information.

Would recommend this to anyone who enjoys historical novels. Great

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Title: Nethergate

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie, Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-12

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour.

Instead, as a poor relation, she is forced to live the life of a servant and suffer the casual cruelty of ladys maid Martha Pratt. When she is seduced and abandoned by the son of the house, Isabella is forced to marry Marthas brother, and her struggle to survive truly begins. However, her misery is lessened when her daughter is born, and for her sake she decides to fight back against a hostile world.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic

Really enjoyed this audio book!

I had it for several years sitting in my library (of over 2500!) and I thought I didn't , well, would not enjoy the narrator. But as with many stories once you start and can get to know your first character or two it's your friend!

I was so sorry to hear it end! Now I MUST have another Norah Lofts novel!

Brilliant Audio Book!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I really enjoyed this story which is told in turn by different characters which I loved. I have read the paperback years ago but this reading with the excellent narration by a male and a female really brought it to life. I can't recommed highly enough if you like historical novels.

What did you like best about this story?

The narration.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Madame D'Auby lost her mind. "Cracked" as the book says.

Any additional comments?

Loved it!

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Title: The Company You Keep

Author: Neil Gordon

Narrator: Donald Corren, Hillary Huber, Kirby Heyborne, Ann Marie Lee, Arthur Morey, Cris Dukehart, Jeannie Stith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties.

When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road - traveling across America and deep into his past. It is a vivid recreation of lives lived underground - of battle-scarred veterans, ideologues, profiteers, criminals, and bystanders.

Critic Reviews:

"Rousing, cerebral.... Gordon's plot is a doozy - a trio of doozies, in fact - yet utterly credible. He projects wrenching political and personal drama onto a slightly futuristic version of where we stand now as a people. In so doing he shows how we got here.... What makes this novel compelling is not only the ideological spectrum it covers but its emotional chiaroscuro.... It bids well to enter the company of our best fiction about the Vietnam era." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Gordon skillfully interweaves the voices of his fictional narrators with many of the most important totems of the era: Vietnam, the shooting of Kent State students by Ohio National Guard members, and the bombing of a townhouse in Greenwich Village.... His characters are so skilfully drwan that they remain likable and interesting, and their missives to Isabel are sincerely felt and compelling reads until the very last page." (The Boston Globe)

"[A] hybrid of political novel, love story, cat-and-mouse thriller, and French bedroom farce...entertaining.... The Company You Keep becomes an addictive page-turner of a book." (Seattle Times)

Members Reviews:

Audiobook of the Year

Thanks, Audible for resurrecting this 2003 novel before the film version next autumn. Two story devices work well in this listen that usually fail: multiple narrators and modified epistolary novel format; the narrative is built by a very long email chain (in detail that could not possible exist in that format, but it???s so engagingly written that you can suspend your disbelief).

It???s a message to the millennial generation and a reminder to all of American 20th century social and political history; It also wants to echo current events. It???s a mystery, love stories, and both a novel of ideas and of individuals and a nation coming of age. It begins very left leaning but becomes more balanced. Mostly it???s about how we construct history, both personal and political. Failed idealism drives the story, but light and hope are never totally absent figuratively or literally.

Although the third quarter of the book becomes a bit wordy and repetitive (we get it by then!), it still seems to me the best audiobook of the year to date. I hope that Redford accomplishes with this material what he almost accomplished with Lions for Lambs. The personal is political, and vice versa.

Excellent

This audio version was wonderfully done. Using the multiple narrators echoed the book's written structure.

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Title: Hanging in Wild Wind

Subtitle: Ranger Series, Book 23

Author: Ralph Cotton

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cottons gritty tales effortlessly capture the glory days of the Old West. Hanging in Wild Wind finds Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack crossing the Badlands, hot on the trail of Silva The Snake Ceran and his gang. But this time the ranger may have bitten off more than he can chew - especially when he comes across Cerans girlfriend, wildcat Kitty Dellaros, who has a deadly reputation of her own.

Members Reviews:

Great western

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

As a lover of books like Lonesome Dove, I enjoyed this book as well. It has a very good story and interesting characters. I will be listening to more Ralph Cotton works.

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Title: Meditations in Green

Author: Stephen Wright

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sardonic, searing, seductive, and surreal, the award-winningMeditations in Greenis regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a kaleidoscopic collage that whirls about an indelible array of images and characters: perverted Winkly, who opted for the army to stay off of welfare; eccentric Payne, whos obsessed with the film hes making of the war; and bucolic Claypool, whos irrevocably doomed to a fate worse than death, just to name a few.

Floating at the center of this psychedelic spin is Specialist 4 James Griffin. In country, Griffin studies the jungle of carpet-bomb photos as he fights desperately to keep his grip on reality. Battling addiction stateside after his tour, he studies the green of household plants as he struggles mightily to regain his sanity. With mesmerizing action and Joycean interior monologues, Stephen Wright has created a book that is as much an homage to the darkness of war as it is a testament to the transcendence of art.

Stephen Wright is a New Yorkbased novelist known for his use of surrealistic imagery and dark comedy. He has taught writing courses at various universities, including Princeton, Brown, and the New School.

Critic Reviews:

Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end. This is a writer of wonderfully strong and deep-reaching talents. (Don DeLillo, National Book Awardwinning author)

Brilliant, scarifyingextravagant, rhapsodic and horrificIt has an overwhelming impact. (New York TimesBook Review)

Takes ones breath away. (The Wall Street Journal)

Members Reviews:

This book requires a lot of Meditation!

"Meditations in Green", written by Stephen Wright, is a very dark story that seems to have no coherence. I found it difficult to understand at times because of the way that it was written. There was a lot of drug induced hallucinations in the story, and the story itself was very disorienting. It was a mixture of what was happening while he, the soldier James Griffin, was in Vietnam and what his life was like currently after Vietnam.

It was absurd, but sometimes good. I will have to re-listen to it some time to see if I can understand it better! A very contemporary novel.

powerful vietnam novel

should have read this powerful, upsetting, excellent book decades ago. glad it became an audiobook. thanks

Worst book I ever bought.....

Written by someone whose elevator doesn't quite go all the way to the top.........not a story at all but aimless meandering philosophical trash.

I want my $10 back.

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Title: Sylvanus Now

Author: Donna Morrissey

Narrator: Donna Morrissey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-12

Publisher: Donna Morrissey

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sylvanus Now is the story of a man, Sylvanus Now, who has modest ambitions - he wants to fish in the old way, like his father before him, and he wants to marry Adelaide, the beautiful girl he spied once at a dance in Ragged Rock. Newfoundland's fishery, however, is on the verge of catastrophic change, and Adelaide proves more of an enigma than the rugged, black-browed Sylvanus imagines.

Set in the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the collapse of the salt-fish industry, Sylvanus Now combines a passionate critique of government short-sightedness with a tender love story about two people who probably shouldn't have married but did. Morrissey's lushly recorded narrative, steeped in outport dialect ("Cripes, why don't you ask Am for a spot on his liner? You're getting like father, bandied at the knees from straddling a boat"), alternates between Sylvanus' and Adelaide's points of view.

While Sylvanus clings to his traditional ways with a reckless tenacity, Addie is a fireball of conflicting emotions, forever spewing invective or else brooding in silence. Forced to drop out of school by her perennially pregnant mother, Adelaide rails against fishing ("she prayed that each fish caught would be the last in the sea") and babies ("their grubby little hands forever snatching, picking and scratching"). Yet, before long, she finds herself married to her fisherman suitor and expecting their first child - a recipe for disaster if ever there was one.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Newfie story

Loved every sentence, of course read by the author with a Newfoundland accent made it all the more appealing.

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Title: The Wishing Tree

Subtitle: Texas Brides, Book 1

Author: Catherine Snodgrass

Narrator: C. D. Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-12

Publisher: AudioLark Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Jake Tanner goes to collect on a debt and comes back with a bride he doesn't want and can't keep his hands off of. Grace Marshall is determined to honor her marriage vows, but one step forward with Jake always leads to two steps back. When Jake's past shows up on the doorstep in the form of the wife he thought was dead, Grace has had enough. Can Jake save his marriage to the wife he loves before the other one puts him in his grave?

Members Reviews:

Nicely written and read

It took me a little while to get into this story as I found C.D.Brooks style of reading to be a little on the slow side. However, once I got into it, I thoroughly enjoyed the story as a whole and will be more than happy to read the next in this series. Recommended!

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Title: Missus

Author: Ruth Park

Narrator: Kate Hood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations,the bush and the country towns. We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship in the dusty outback, filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry. Ruth Parks Australian classics take you from the barren landscapes of the outback to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.

©1985 Kemalde Pty Ltd (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Members Reviews:

First instalment of a very entertaining trilogy !!

What did you love best about Missus?

its realistic depiction of life in rural Australia at the time

What was one of the most memorable moments of Missus?

Margaret's visit to Hughie in the "look-up".

Which character as performed by Kate Hood was your favorite?

All with Irish accents

If you could rename Missus, what would you call it?

I think "Missus" is a very befitting title - no need to change it.

Any additional comments?

Sequel of "Harp In The South", flows on seamlessly from this first instalment by Ruth Parks.

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Title: Heaven Is a Long Way Off

Author: Win Blevins

Narrator: Ed Sala

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Win Blevins has won popular and critical acclaim for his sweeping Western Rendezvous saga. Heaven is a Long Way Off finds Sam Morgan mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.

Members Reviews:

Heaven

Well told story of family, allies, and enemies. Like its predecessors Blevins weaves an excellent story of love, duty and adventure in the American West as only a handful of people were privileged to experience through the era of the fur trade.

Five Stars

Wonderful.

Win Blevins is a Mountain Man, Story teller.

Good story woven into true history. Win Blevins is a true entertainer

High adventure with history of old California

I'm still reading this book at this time. Takes me to another time in the state of California. I'm enjoying this story very much and plan to buy more of this author's books.

Best yet

This is the best read so far in the series. I can't wait to read what happens to Sam and company next.