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Title: Crucible of Decline

Subtitle: Tottering on the Fall, Book 1

Author: R. S. Bagaladi, Columbus Falco

Narrator: Michael Hudson Arnold

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-14

Publisher: Mr. R.S. Bagala

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This book entitled Crucible of Decline is a fictional story revolving around the eventual collapse of the United States dollar and how a corrupted Federal Government headed by President Carson B. Archer declares a national emergency using the "National Security Emergency Response Act" which has been resurrected from the cold war era thereby allowing the federal government to run the nation in a manner befitting of a dictatorship.

As the story expands, calamity overwhelms all domestic life and disrupts international-balances to a dangerous and explosive level. The beginning chapter tells the roots of this fictional prediction and the destruction of the four Pillars of America's greatness. Paramount is the Cultural Decline of America well underway in the later 20th and early 21st Centuries and has corrupted the Political Pillar and soon collapses the Economic Pillar leaving only the Military Pillar standing under siege but ready to strike back.

The story is supported throughout with commentary, historical references and facts supporting the probability of this fictional story becoming a prophetic reality. Faced with disasters, rising civil violence and an unintentional plague of mass death, the result of the inept authorities, and so gives members of the Military's Joint Chiefs of Staff and a few members of the Cabinet no option but to form and enact a counter-covert plan which reaches its crescendo in the first days of May. (a veiled reference to the 1964 movie, Seven Days in May, based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, which was published in 1962).

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Title: From Liverpool with Love

Author: Lyn Andrews

Narrator: Janine Birkett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Transport yourself to 1920s Liverpool, to be moved and delighted by this wonderful novel from one of the UK's best-loved saga authors.

In 1920s Liverpool, Jane, her little brother Alfie and their mother Ellen have faced the horrors of the workhouse together. But when Ellen dies, two very different paths open up for the siblings. Jane is sent to work in the Empire Laundry and builds a new life for herself with the neighbours who take her in. She finds solace there and the promise of a happy future when she falls for Joe, their eldest son.

But Alfie absconds from the workhouse and embarks on a life of crime. When their paths cross once more, Alfie turns on his sister. His plans will jeopardise every happiness she hoped for....

Members Reviews:

Good listen

Good story, narrators accents were very good. great listen. nothing else 5 say..... !! x

A lovely story

I really enjoyed listening to the story and the narrator was excellent - loved the Liverpool accent.

charming

from tears to happiness and all kinds in between. I loved this easy to listen to book.

Twaddle

Struggled to the end curious to see how this terrible book would resolve itself, wish I hadn't bothered. Awful

Better to read the paperback

Would you try another book written by Lyn Andrews or narrated by Janine Birkett?

Would prefer to read than listen. I don't dislike Liverpool or its residents, but listening to the narrator take on the voices of young/old male/female people nearly made my ears bleed. The screeching was just too much. At least with reading, you can imagine the sounds for yourself.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Ada. She seemed to look after everyone

What three words best describe Janine Birketts voice?

Feel it's unfair to answer the question. She was only doing her job

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Doubt one would be made but yes, although it would be predictable, it would be enjoyable too for people who like that genre.

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Title: Maggie Rose and Sass

Author: Eunice Boeve

Narrator: Jennifer Ristvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-14

Publisher: Books In Motion

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Maggie Rose and Sass explores the differences between two races and the culture of the times. The novel is set in 1888 in a fictional town based on Nicodemus, Kansas, a town settled ten years earlier by ex-slaves from Kentucky. Life in Georgia with an ugly-tempered, racist grandmother has not prepared the orphaned Maggie Rose for Solomon Town whose citizens are almost all black. Sass has lived all her life in Solomon Town, the daughter of an ex-slave mother and a free-born, educated, mixed-race father. Raised in such totally different cultures, the two girls are bound to clash.

Members Reviews:

Great book about two girls of different races and their clash of ideas/cultures while they grow to appreciate the "other."

Eunice Boeve is one of my favorite writers, not just for young adults, but also for all ages. I was surprised by the way Eunice portrayed the two teenagers. Maggie Rose, the white girl raised by a cruel and racist grandmother and a silent colored servant woman. Sass is an outspoken and interested colored girl raised by a well-educated free father and an ex-slave mother. The expectation for the story might be that when these two girls meet, under strange circumstances for the white Maggie Rose-- in this book she is the minority--they would immediately see their likenesses and become instant friends. Not so in Boeve's more true to life fictional world with deeply real characterizations. It takes time and many missteps before these girls learn to respect, honor and like each other. As usual Boeve salts the book with historic facts and realities that the reader may or may not have known. And she does not paint the past with the brush of current ideas and PC language. Her book is about the actuality of the characters in their time and place. The realization of an all free colored town in Kansas of the 1880s is masterful.

Another thought provoking book for young adults from Eunice Boeve

Maggie Rose and Sass are both twelve years old and they both love reading books. But in 1888 they are from two different worlds. Maggie Rose was born in Georgia, and after she was orphaned a bitter and prejudiced grandmother raised her. Sass lives in Solomon Town, Kansas where her father publishes the local newspaper. Solomon town is a nearly all colored community settled by ex-slaves. After her grandmother dies Maggie Rose has no choice but to move to Solomon Town to live with her Uncle Caleb who owns the general store. With the prejudicial conditioning from her grandmother will Maggie Rose adjust to living in a colored community especially when her uncle and aunt live in a dugout while prosperous coloreds live in fine granite houses? Will she make friends with Sass and other colored girls? Will Sass overcome her notion that Maggie Rose is "An Uppity White Girl" and invite her into her circle of friends?

Again, Eunice Boeve creates a readable, page turning tale while at the same time weaving in fascinating historical fact and detail. For instance African Americans in 1888 in the plains of Kansas could not stay in the nearby all white town overnight. Instead they had to camp out in a dugout on the outskirts of town no matter the weather. Ms. Boeve also creates believable characters whose personalities are true to the time, instead of becoming revisionist, which is all too common in literature these days. The book will be highly enjoyed by middle grade and young adult readers.

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Titel: Die Tote von Rosewood Hall (Lady Jane 1)

Autor:: Annis Bell

Erzähler: Sabina Godec

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-16-14

Herausgeber: Lake Union

Bewertung: 1 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wiltshire 1860: Lord Henry Pembroke hat sich alle Mühe mit der Ausrichtung eines Balls für seine geliebte Nichte Lady Jane in Rosewood Hall gegeben. Auf der Gästeliste stehen die begehrtesten Junggesellen der Londoner Gesellschaft, denn der kranke Lord möchte die Zukunft seiner Nichte, die ihm mehr eine Tochter ist, gesichert wissen. Doch der Abend nimmt einen gänzlich anderen Verlauf als geplant...

Ein verletztes Mädchen stolpert in der winterlichen Ballnacht durch den Park von Rosewood Hall und wird von Lady Jane entdeckt. Jane, eine unkonventionelle und allzu selbstbewusste junge Frau, bringt die Namenlose im Wintergarten unter. Mit ihrem letzten Atemzug bittet die Sterbende Jane darum, ihre Freundin Mary zu finden und vor einem schrecklichen Schicksal zu bewahren. Das Schicksal der gequälten Kreatur geht Jane nahe und sie verspricht, zu helfen. Unerwartete Unterstützung findet Jane durch Captain Wescott, einen verschwiegenen, eher düster wirkenden, aber auch attraktiven Mann.

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Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Interesting reading

Very good,holds your interest all the way through the Book.

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Title: Onklerne - og deres fruer [The Uncles - and Their Wives]

Author: Jane Aamund

Narrator: Tina Kruse Andersen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-14

Publisher: ArtPeople

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"Jeg vil fortlle om en tid, der var engang, og en mandetype, der siges at vre uddd. Men hvem ved, mske genopstr mnd af onkel-stbningen i nr fremtid." - Jane AamundFra Christianshavns strder til Jyllands herregarde i 1930ernes og 40ernes Danmark. Md bagermester onkel Theodor med stlsat vilje og snoet overskg, der ikke mrker meget til det stormfulde gteskab, han lever i med tante Ella. Sdelighedsbetjenten onkel Kristen, der ligner Clark Gable og er gift med moster Karen, som stter hver en mand p plads. Smedens ugte sn onkel Johan, der vokser op med sprut og trre tsk, ender som dansebestyrer og svinger et utal af damer uden om sit gteskab med tante Valborg. Og smukke, forfrende tante Esther fra Lemvig, der var gift med den ene onkel Viggo, og den ordblinde onkel Viggo, der elsker sin kone tante Flora hjt og sin tyranniske mor endnu hjere. Onklerne - og deres fruer er Jane Aamunds skbnefortllinger om de kradse, kulrte og karismatiske onkler og tanter, hun mdte som barn i en tid, da linjerne mellem mand og kvinde var trukket op - og dog.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

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Titel: Die Ilias: Der Trojanische Krieg (Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums Band 2, Buch 1-5)

Autor:: Gustav Schwab

Erzähler: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-10-14

Herausgeber: Jürgen Fritsche

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums: Die berühmte Sammlung griechischer Sagen von Gustav Schwab, die dem Hörer die Antike auf spannende Art näher bringen - ungekürzt gelesen, vom Raub der Helena bis zum Trojanischen Pferd und der Zerstörung der Stadt Troja! 2. Band: Die Ilias - Der Trojanische Krieg.

Inhalt:

© Gemeinfrei (P)2014 Jürgen Fritsche

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Titel: Odysseus (Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums Band 3, Buch 2-3)

Autor:: Gustav Schwab

Erzähler: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-10-14

Herausgeber: Jürgen Fritsche

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums: Die berühmte Sammlung griechischer Sagen von Gustav Schwab, die dem Hörer die Antike auf spannende Art näher bringen - ungekürzt gelesen!

3. Band, 2.-3. Buch: Die Irrfahrten des Odysseus, der Kampf seines Sohnes Telemach zu Hause gegen die Freier seiner Mutter, die Rückkehr und Rache des Odysseus.

© Gemeinfrei (P)2014 Jürgen Fritsche

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Titel: Äneas (Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums Band 3, Buch 4-6)

Autor:: Gustav Schwab

Erzähler: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-10-14

Herausgeber: Jürgen Fritsche

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums: Die berühmte Sammlung griechischer Sagen von Gustav Schwab, die dem Hörer die Antike auf spannende Art näher bringen - ungekürzt gelesen!

3. Band, 4.-6. Buch: Äneas verlässt mit den übrigen Trojanern die Trümmer der Stadt, um nach langen Irrfahrten und spannenden Abenteuern schließlich in Italien anzukommen - wo seine Nachfahren die Stadt Rom gründen werden!

© Gemeinfrei (P)2014 Jürgen Fritsche

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Titel: Die letzten Tantaliden (Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums Band 3, Buch 1)

Autor:: Gustav Schwab

Erzähler: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 58 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-10-14

Herausgeber: Jürgen Fritsche

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Sagen des klassischen Altertums: Die berühmte Sammlung griechischer Sagen von Gustav Schwab, die dem Hörer die Antike auf spannende Art näher bringen - ungekürzt gelesen!

3. Band, 1. Buch: Die letzten Tantaliden. Agamemnon ist vom Stamme der Tantaliden. Sein Urvater Tantalos hatte einst gegen die Götter gefrevelt - und nun muss er die berühmten Tantalosqualen erleiden. Und sein Fluch zieht sich durch die Generationen.

© Gemeinfrei (P)2014 Jürgen Fritsche

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Title: The Surfacing

Author: Cormac James

Narrator: Nick McArdle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Cormac James' The Surfacing is set on board a ship in the 1850s, searching for Franklin's lost expedition. It's a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world - that is until Morgan, the second-in-command of the Impetus, realises there is a pregnant stowaway on board. It is too late to turn back, the ice is closing in, and the child will have to be born into the vast and icy wilderness of the Arctic.

Critic Reviews:

"Cormac James's writing is very assured, with a harsh poetic edge. His evocations of barren landscape, sea weather, pack ice, frozen skies are terrific. He takes the reader there." (Rose Tremain)

"The surfacing of love in the face of solitude." (Colum McCann)

Members Reviews:

Captivating

Interesting writing style which serves to further dehumanize the waiting and the suffering. From an 'away' perspective, the story requires that you keep reading.

Five Stars

Arrived in time, just can't seem to get into this book...it is a Book Club choice. Thanks

One Star

Horrible waste of paper and ink.

Another Best New Fiction Book of the Week Pick

Cormac Jamesâ hauntingly beautiful novel, The Surfacing, tells the story of the men on one of many English ships in the 1800s that explored the Artic in search of a previous failed expedition. They are making the voyage not because they have any real chance of success, but because âThe drawing rooms of London will not tolerate anything less.â No one but their reckless and vainglorious captain has any sort of enthusiasm for the trip; their ship reaches the rendezvous point last, meaning that they will be assigned the worst possible route; winter comes as early and brutally as it always does, and the ice closes in. Then they discover a stowaway onboard â a woman impregnated by the shipâs first mate.

Her presence, and especially the imminent delivery, only add to the first mateâs sense of claustrophobic dread. When at last it came time for his son to be born, he listens and imagines âa blank page being slowly torn in two. The rip has a will of its own, wanders off, like a fault line in a solid wall. Flaws appearing places she would have sworn were sound. But that solid surface â it is the merest skim of plaster over old cracks. Underneath, all the old wounds are still open, and the pain knows exactly where they are. It knows her better than she knows herself. It has been studying her secretly, all her life.â

This, then is the heart of the novel â the wounds that are still open and the pain that knows how to find them. Amid the austere magnificence of a relentless physical environment, the men and woman of the ship endure their fate with much fortitude and little complaint, perhaps because complaint would be trivial in a world like this one. With a near perfect unity of setting, style, emotion, and theme, James traps his characters, and the reader, squarely within that fault line just as the ship itself is trapped within the ice. There are dreams, of course, of a different sort of life, and those dreams serve only to intensify the desperation of their circumstances. âHe felt the breach between himself and them, the men of renown. He had read their books. For them, there had been far horizons, all around. He had gone to the windows they had looked through and found them walled up. . . .