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Title: Benedict Hall

Author: Cate Campbell

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against the vibrant and colorful backdrop of 1920s Seattle, Cate Campbell's latest Benedict Hall novel brings the tumultuous, changing world of a privileged family to vivid life.

Though born into one of Seattle's most prestigious families, Margot Benedict has fought to claim all the independence offered to young women in 1923. Where her brother, Preston, embraced a life of debauchery, Margot has a thriving medical practice. Working at a local orphanage, she's shocked to see a young boy who looks every inch a Benedict. But though she's convinced this is the illegitimate child Preston once mentioned, Margot has no way to prove any family connection.

At 16, Bronwyn Morgan fell in love with dashing Preston Benedict. Seduced and abandoned, she's arrived at Benedict Hall determined to find the son she was forced to give away. Aging matriarch Edith takes the fragile girl under her wing, but Edith's own delicate state and Preston's dangerous animosity collide, jeopardizing not only a child's future, but the Benedict legacy itself.

Critic Reviews:

"Recommended for fans of Downton Abbey." (Parkersburg News & Sentinel)

Members Reviews:

Lovely period story. Great narrator

The story gripped me from the start. The narrator has a wonderful voice and really made it for me. Great period escapism.

not my cup of tea

What disappointed you about Benedict Hall?

Characters were annoying, story was even more annoying. The storyline with the sapphire made no sense and came from no where.

Has Benedict Hall turned you off from other books in this genre?

is this even a genre?

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

annoyance

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Title: The Unwitting

Author: Ellen Feldman

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Betrayal comes in many forms....

At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phone call that overturns the world as she knows it. In the shocking aftermath, whilst America mourns, Nell must come to terms with both a tragedy and a betrayal that shatters every illusion of the man she thought she knew better than anyone else. Resonant, illuminating and utterly absorbing, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell, the secrets we keep and the power of both truth and love.

Members Reviews:

A three star effort.

Whereas the reflection of the political machinations of the early sixties is interesting, and the characters are fairly well drawn, the language is banal and the writing amateurish. I highlighted some sentences as I read that would have made my high school English teacher tear his hair out. Page 193: "In the silence of the empty apartment, my loneliness bumped against the high ceilings like an untethered helium balloon". Ouch.

So what is literary fiction? Worthy of discussion, but it's not this book.

Starts VERY slowly..

I liked this book in the end as it aptly describes the time between WWII and the mid Sixties through the eyes of people in the literary world. You can see and feel their youthful zeal for printing he truth while trying to navigate in a social/emotional works so different from their parents'. But, man, the first 100 pages are tedious. The setup for the rest of the novel could be achieved in twenty. Luckily, it is light reading so you can zoom through it. I almost just put the book away but in the end, was glad I didn't, just barely.

The Unwitting

While I did not understand everything or every emotion in this book, it drew me in and I found it hard to put down. The title, The Unwitting, refers to those who are not aware of what is really going on! It is a story of a marriage of idealists, the story also of their lives outside their marriage, and how that affects their life together. Very good!

Would Recommend But...

I wish it went a little deeper. Well written and brought some interesting things to light regarding journalism during this time period but I felt as though some of perspectives of the other characters were more in depth.

Informative and Entertaining

Characters are real and the reader feels a closeness to them, understanding their actions even though at first some are surprising. Provides insight to the link between politics and the literary world during the 50's and 60's.

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Title: The Paris Affair

Subtitle: Malcom & Suzanne Rannoch, Book 3

Author: Teresa Grant

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts

In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attach and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have borne a child - a secret she took to the grave. And Malcolm suspects there was more than mere impropriety behind her silence

As Malcolm and Suzanne begin searching for answers, they learn that the child was just one of many secrets Tatiana had been keeping. The princess was the toast of Paris when she arrived in the glamorous city, flirting her way into the arms of more than a few men - perhaps even those of Napoleon himself - and the father must be among them. But in the melee of the Napoleonic Wars, she was caught up in a deadly game, and now Malcolm and Suzanne must race against time to save the child from a similar fate

Critic Reviews:

Twists and turns galore, swashbuckling adventure and suspense throughout..for readers in search of smart historical mysteries. (Tasha Alexander, New York Times bestselling author)

I loved this book! No one else can combine page-turning suspense, fascinating mystery, a palpable sense of time and place, with such unforgettable and masterfully-drawn characters. Superb! (Deborah Crombie, New York Times bestselling author)

Members Reviews:

The Rannochs Feel Almost Real

I am totally absorbed in this series. I know the word love is overused, but I really do love this couple. I don't even care what their names have changed to (although I do think it was a silly thing for any publisher to do), I am riveted by their story.

I find Malcolm's emotional distance attractive, while Suzanne exudes elegant sophistication - together they make a perfect couple. Grant is extremely skillful with her characterizations and this couple seems almost real. These books have it all - divided loyalties, simmering mysteries, past loves, present affairs, unrequited yearnings - Grant just offers a reader so many tantalizing unknowns and hints of delicious secrets yet to be unraveled.

Clearly, I enjoy the Rannochs and have read all the stories so far written. Knowing what will soon occur in their lives has made reading this story particularly interesting and entertaining. Having said that, and having highly recommended them all, I think if I were forced to rank my favorite tale, this would be at the bottom of the list. Not because it was in any way bad, but just that the others were so very good.

This book seemed vaguely reminiscent of the previous book, utilizing many of the same characters in the same roles and I found myself a little less intrigued by the mystery of Tania's child than the other murder mysteries. I was also slightly disappointed that more of the book wasn't more dedicated to the Rannoch's relationship - which I love to see unfold. However, the writing is so good and I so enjoyed the book despite these small quibbles that I probably shouldn't even mention any issues.

If you enjoyed the others, you will most definitely enjoy this one as well.

Not just one, nor even just two . . .

. . . but enough affairs that the reader loses count after about a hundred pages.

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Title: Blood on the Water

Subtitle: William Monk, Book 20

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Deirdra Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The new historical thriller featuring William Monk from The New York Times bestselling author.

London, 1856. A deadly act of terror on the Thames leads William Monk into a treacherous world where the powerful seek to buy justice, and no one is safe. It is a time of progress, with the Empire's interests expanding and the Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain - and to lose - as the world rapidly changes.

When a Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of many lives, an Egyptian man is quickly sentenced to hang for the crime. But William Monk, head of the River Police, discovers the evidence was flawed. As he and his wife Hester investigate further, Monk begins to wonder if the wrong man was convicted. If justice itself has been tainted, exposing the true culprit will be far more hazardous...

Members Reviews:

Interesting moral dilemmas, not enough twists

What did you like most about Blood on the Water?

Having had Anne Perry's Inpector Monk before I really warmed to the characters and like the way she gives a feeling of life in Victorian London.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Sort of fizzled out really.

What three words best describe Deirdra Whelans voice?

Clear, wrong book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. It moved slowly, so was easy to pick up on several listenings, even with a gap of a week or so.

Any additional comments?

It rather concentrated too much on the moral dilemmas and details and wasn't

as gripping as I'd hoped.

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Title: Gloria

Author: Kerry Young

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.

It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more.

It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she has made for herself and the one that might be.Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power.

Members Reviews:

Bravo great story!

Performance and story will be well worth your time. The writer was able to engage my imagination to the time and place, bravo!

A reflection

I couldn't believe how much I saw myself in this character. You would have never guessed a Man wrote this.

Great read!!

Absolutely loved this story. Didn't want it to end. A story of the turmoils of youth and how these play into adulthood. You felt one with the character and willed her to succeed

Superb

Just finished and what an emotional roller coaster. Pau was good but Gloria is superb. My only problem it finishes too soon in the story.

A painted picture

my family are from Jamaica and St Vincent and it painted a Jamaica I knew very little about other than facts I have found. This story was all heart and had me laughing and crying with Gloria.

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Titel: Die Rettung der Highlanderin (Herkunft der MacLeod 1)

Autor:: Laurin Wittig

Erzähler: Helmut Winkelmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-27-14

Herausgeber: AmazonCrossing

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Schottland 1308: Nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Krieg gegen die Engländer in die schottischen Highlands wird Tayg Munro als Held empfangen - und vor ein Ultimatum gestellt. Bevor er in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters treten und dessen Nachfolge als Chief des Clans von Culrain antreten kann, muss er sich binnen eines Monats eine Ehefrau suchen... andernfalls wird die Wahl für ihn getroffen. Wütend über die Anordnung seiner Familie schiebt Tayg das Unvermeidliche hinaus und meldet sich freiwillig für eine Mission des Königs, die ihn tief in die Highlands führt. In Gedanken über seine Heiratspflicht versunken macht sich der Krieger missmutig auf den Weg, ohne zu ahnen, weder in was für hinterhältige Intrigen er schon bald verstrickt werden soll, noch der gefährlichen Leidenschaft, die entflammen wird, nachdem er auf eine fast bewusstlose Schönheit im Wald stößt...

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Kritik Bewertungen:

Ein wildes Toben quer durch Schottlanddieser Autorin muss man definitiv Beachtung schenken!

-- New York Times Bestsellerautorin Mary Jo Putney

Pass auf Shakespeare: niemand erschafft eine liebenswertere, widerspenstige und zänkische Protagonistin wie Laurin Wittig.

-- New York Times Bestsellerautorin Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Five Stars

very good story

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Title: The Queen's Gamble

Author: Barbara Kyle

Narrator: Barbara Kyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Young Queen Elizabeth I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England. Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen's loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle money to the Scottish rebels. Yet Elizabeth's trust only goes so far - Isabel's son will be the queen's hostage until she completes her mission. Matters grow worse when Isabel's husband is engaged as military advisor to the French, putting the couple on opposite sides in a deadly cold war.

Members Reviews:

pure entertainment

If you could sum up The Queen's Gamble in three words, what would they be?

if you are not a history buff and are looking for a good novel with a historical setting this is series is a fun read.

What did you like best about this story?

kept my attention as i went about my household chores

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Title: Okatibbee Creek

Author: Lori Crane

Narrator: Margaret Lepera

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-13

Publisher: Lori Crane Entertainment, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the bloodiest years of our nation's history, a young mother was left alone to endure the ravages of the Civil War and a typhoid epidemic that threatened the lives of everyone left behind.

Okatibbee Creek is based on the true story of Mary Ann Rodgers, who survived the collapse of the Confederate dollar, food shortages, and the deaths of countless family members to war and disease. As she searched for a way to feed her children and her orphaned nieces and nephews, Sherman's Union army marched through Mississippi on their way to destroy Meridian, and Mary Ann found the distant war literally on her doorstep.

Help arrived just in the nick of time in the form of an unexpected champion, and Mary Ann emerged on the other side a heroic woman with an amazing story. Okatibbee Creek is an audiobook of historical fiction that brings the Deep South vividly to life and will have you cheering and crying through a real-life story of loss, love and survival.

Members Reviews:

Great book

What did you love best about Okatibbee Creek?

Loved the historical information embedded in this family story.

What did you like best about this story?

It was very interesting seeing the southern point of view of that time period,

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Excellent read, Outgunned Creek

I tired a little of the genealogy lesson, who married whom, whose child was of what parents - hard to keep everyone straight. HOWEVER, persevere! The author expertly weaves historical events with cherished, charismatic characters. Well worth the read. The performance absolutely brings the story to life!

Captivating story with an exceptional narrator

What did you love best about Okatibbee Creek?

From the very beginning, I was captivated by this story and its picturesque setting and its cast of characters making a life before, during, and after the years of the Civil War. The narrator of the audio tape, Margaret Lepera, provides just the right touch of a southern accent to make the narration of Mary Ann Rodgers' landscape and personality leap to life.

What about Margaret Leperas performance did you like?

Her accent was perfect suited to the setting and era of this story.

Any additional comments?

Lori Crane is an exceptional storyteller of the Deep South. The ingrained notion of slavery is accepted by the characters and the fight over it through such a high price is puzzling to the characters of Okatibbee Creek. They end up freeing their slaves anyway as a result of the destroyed economy of this part of Mississippi. The strong female, Mary Ann, keeps families together and carries on the tradition of her father and mother in the love shown to all human beings. A life examined is one worth living and Crane presents us with one exceptional life worth examining in the audio or book form of Okatibbee Creek.

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Title: Heirs of Alexandria

Subtitle: Alexandrian Saga, #2

Author: Thomas K. Carpenter

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-13

Publisher: Black Moon Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For 300 years it was believed Alexander the Great had no heir. The Roman armada descends on Alexandria. Friends flee, allies bicker, and foes multiply in the night. The fragile city-state teeters on the brink of annihilation. As the naval blockade looms and palace intrigue thickens, Heron must find the heir of Alexander the Great or nothing will stop the Romans from overrunning the wondrous city.

Members Reviews:

Heron the Inventor and Engineer Continues, Book 2

Second in the Series about the great city of Alexandria, Heirs of Alexandria finds Heron sent off to discover if Alexander the Great left any heirs . . . while daughter, Sepharia is held prisoner in Alexandria under false charges . . . with attack by the Romans eminent, will Heron return in time to save the city and Sepharia?

Good sequel to Fires of Alexandria

I really enjoyed Thomas K. Carpenter's Fires of Alexandria, as narrated by Elizabeth Klett, which is a steampunk novel about the real inventor Heron of Alexandria. This novel is the continuation of Heron's adventures, and develops the character of her niece Sepharia really well, too. This is also excellently read by Elizabeth Klett.

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Title: Midnight Lover

Author: Barbara Bretton

Narrator: Braden Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-13

Publisher: Barbara Bretton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

They were sworn enemies by day - and passionate lovers by night.

The cowboy moved so quickly Caroline didn't have time to think, much less react. One moment he was standing there looking at her across the blazing hot Nevada street, the next moment, she was in his arms.

Her protests were stopped as he bent his head toward her. A complete stranger, a cowboy she'd met just moments ago when she stepped off the dusty stagecoach was actually going to put his mouth on hers and kiss her. Things like this never happened in Boston!

Just before she thought she would certainly swoon from the heat and the breathlessness and the shocking thrill of anticipation, the sound of gunshots pierced the fog she was in and a bullet whizzed past her left ear.

The cowboy swooped her up into his arms then dropped to the ground and rolled with her under the stagecoach. Her heavy skirts rode up over her thighs and she struggled to pull them down before he got a glimpse of her lacy pantalettes but it was no use. He had her pinned with his body and the way they fit together was shameful. His chest was pressed so close to her that she was certain he could feel the outline of her breasts through her blue dress. His hip bones jutted against the slight soft curve of her stomach and she dared not imagine the cause of the powerful heat pressing against her belly.

He took full advantage of the situation and positioned himself between her legs and she hated herself for noticing just how handsome he really was. She'd never felt more vulnerable - or more alive - in her entire life.

Members Reviews:

Narrated beautifully

New author for me, the story is good. Caroline is a young woman who despite her fears, fights for what she believes in. I like that in a book. Jesse is quite a different story, he portrays himself to those around him as arrogant and cold, but we get peeks from the beginning that he is not without heart and is loyal to a fault. He falls hard for Caroline despite his fight against the attraction for the feisty young woman. What starts out as a business arrangement becomes so much more for both of them.

Ms. Wright, one of my fave narrators, did a splendid job telling the story. His voice for Jesse is sinful, loved it. Love all the voices he gave to the characters. I never have to think who speaks when because of the dinstinction he does so well.

3.5 Stars for this Western Teasing Romance

I found the relationship between Jesse Reardon and Caroline Bennett to be exciting. Jesse and Caroline had definite chemistry from the beginning. Yet, they were immediate enemies upon Caroline stepping into Jesse's town to stake a claim on her inheritance.

I really liked the heroine, Caroline, a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde who entered the wild west with her intelligence, sassy wits and perseverance to succeed in a man's world. Caroline began her adventure as she left Boston in search of a new way of life for herself. She sought to take the propriety of her deceased father's saloon, the Crazy Arrow, and later she found out about a mine he owned.

Jesse Reardon has a story of his own as he has made a name and reputation for himself as the most powerful man in Silver Spur which was marked as a single man's dream town with the whore houses and gaming saloons present. Jesse is a strong man dead set against marriage and the trapping of a conventional relationship with a woman.