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Title: What About the Children?

Subtitle: Two Left, Three Were Taken, and One Was Left Behind.

Author: Alice Heath-Gladden

Narrator: Stephen Rozzell

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-15

Publisher: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

If you could reinvent your life, how would you do it? What About the Children explores a fictionalized life story, uncovering wounds so deep that only the writer could go there.

Members Reviews:

Two Stars

I found this to be a laborious read.

Fascinating Tale of Strong Family Bonds

This is one story that doesn't easily fall into one of "Hollywood's 7 Scripts." I enjoyed it because the narrative unfolded as the children grew up. Their different personalities were captured and described through realistic events and actions. While my rational side enjoyed the careful unveiling of the children's personalities, my emotional side enjoyed the descriptions of the picturesque settings and events. This book made me want to move to a small town in the Applacian mountains! I recommend the book as a vacation/escape trip book. While this review focuses on the course of the story, the climax is really impressive...keep your tissues handy!

Amazing story centered around true events

This is a novel written by the author with such feeling and emotions. It is very realistic to her own life events and it makes the book even more heart warming to read. Forget about Mean Old George in the book. I think it was Mean Old Uncle Hank. I wish the children could have all been kept together but the circumstances wouldn't allow it and I wish they had been reunited at an early age. It does make you want to read the whole book once you pick it up. Maybe a second sequel?

Truly Memorable Book

This is a book you will read and reread and hope for a sequel. With it based on a blend of fiction and factual memories, the author found a way to touch my heart with every page. I could not put it down and was actually sorry when I finished reading it after becoming so involved with each character. I wanted to know more about each of their lives. I laughed and I cried many times while reading this wonderful novel. I will definitely watch for anything by this author going forward.

Warm and Entertaining.

A wonderful, well-written book that holds your interest until the end. As you read each chapter, you become more and more attached to each character. Very difficult to put down until finished to see the outcome, but at the same time, you don't want the story to end. A warm, moving story unfolded brilliantly by the author. The cover is appealing - invites one to get comfortable and escape into another time!

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Titel: Die Tempelritter: Verlorenes Wissen 1.2

Autor:: Thomas Tippner

Erzähler: Doug van Roegelsnap

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 10 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-29-15

Herausgeber: Roegelsnap Hörbücher

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Gerard begann alles infrage zu stellen. Natürlich, er hatte sich selber in diese Lage gebracht; war mit dem schweigsamen und in sich gekehrten Bloch aufgebrochen, um seinem Vater aus den Augen gehen zu können; nun aber, da sie in einem geräumigen, vom Geruch des Rauches und Weines dominierten Wirtshaus saßen, war er sich nicht einmal mehr sicher, ob es die richtige Entscheidung gewesen war.

Denn seitdem sie den seltsamen Wanderer getroffen hatten, schien es, als ob der ansonsten sich seiner Würde bewusste Bloch in sich zusammengefallen war. Er grübelte und war kaum noch anzusprechen.

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Title: North of Big Spring

Author: Joe Wayne Brumett

Narrator: Ryan Bell

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-15

Publisher: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

After returning home from the Civil War to find that his father has died, Confederate major Tom McDowell sells his house and decides to start a new life in the West.

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Titel: Unter dem Südseemond

Autor:: Regina Gärtner

Erzähler: Marie Bierstedt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 16 hrs and 20 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-22-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Köln/Samoa 1899: Vom Vater gedrängt heiratet Alma den älteren Hermann, Leiter einer Kolonialhandelsgesellschaft, und begleitet ihn in die Südsee. Für Alma bedeutet es das Ende ihrer Welt - in jeder Hinsicht. Sie muss sich an das unkonventionelle Leben in der Kolonie und die Riten ihrer exotischen Einwohner gewöhnen und sich als Frau behaupten. In dem australischen Seemann Joshua findet Alma ihre große Liebe, aber sie ist verheiratet. Doch nicht nur das macht ihr das Herz schwer, denn es wird immer deutlicher, dass ein bedrohliches Geheimnis über ihrer Familie liegt.

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©2013 Regina Gärtner (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Die Rache der Duftnäherin (Duftnäherin 2)

Autor:: Caren Benedikt

Erzähler: Gabriele Blum

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 14 hrs and 48 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-15-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Bremen im 14. Jahrhundert. Anna hat sich in der Stadt, die mit den Nachwirkungen der Pest zu kämpfen hat, längst einen Namen als "Duftnäherin" gemacht. Ihr Geheimnis, Seife in die Säume der von ihr geschneiderten Kleider zu nähen, hat sich als wahre Sensation entpuppt.

Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie im Haus ihres Großvaters, des Ratsherrn Siegbert von Goossen. Als dieser von einer Reise nach Flandern nicht mehr zurückkehrt, macht sich Anna in höchster Sorge auf, ihn zu suchen - und gerät in das Abenteuer ihres Lebens...

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©2015 Droemersche Verlagsanstalt (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Die Tempelritter: Verlorenes Wissen 1.1

Autor:: Thomas Tippner

Erzähler: Doug van Roegelsnap

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 14 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-13-15

Herausgeber: Roegelsnap Hörbücher

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Gerard Gampanie verlässt in Zorn die heimatliche Burg seines Vaters, um endlich dem Joch seiner Stiefmutter zu entkommen. Aus Verzweiflung, und weil er keine andere Möglichkeit sieht, schließt er sich Augustin Bloch an- einem Tempelritter.

Ohne es zu ahnen, gerät Gerard zwischen die Fronten des Glaubens, der Politik und den Intrigen mächtiger Männer. Plötzlich schwebt Gerard in Lebensgefahr, nachdem er die Obhut für die kleine Maria übernommen hat, um mit ihr ins Heilige Land, nach Jerusalem, zu gehen...

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Title: To a Strange Somewhere Fled

Author: DM Denton

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-15

Publisher: All Things That Matter Press, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

After the sudden end to her collaboration with composer Alessandro Stradella, Donatella moves from Genoa to join her parents in a small village in Oxfordshire, England. The gift of a sonnet, "stolen" music, inexpressible secrets, and an irrepressible spirit have stowed away on her journey. Haunted by whispers and visions, angels and demons, will she rise out of grief and aimlessness? Her father's friendship with the residents of Wroxton Abbey, who are important figures in the court of Charles II, offers new possibilities, especially as music and its masters - including the "divine" Henry Purcell - have not finished with her yet.

Members Reviews:

For Those Who Like Descriptive Depth

This is the second in a series, and my mistake was in beginning here. Youâll note that I give this four stars, but do not intend to read the rest of the series. While the book is beautifully written, the human impact is lower that I like when I read. I think in keeping with the title, the beginning of this novel is deliberately vague. I get the sense of a woman Donatello whoâs been hurt in her past and is trying to put all dreams behind her. It is apparently a boarding house where she lives and when a trunk arrives with instructions, we see that a mysterious religious man is about to enter her life.

I spent the whole novel waiting for this man. I donât know if I missed him, or if this was a set-up for the third novel.

Some historical writers had a conversation about writing historical fiction, and where our emphasis should be, and we all agreed that character and plot come first, and we should strive not to show off our research. I think that could be my main problem with this book. Lack of plot, character, tension, and too much description. But because the prose is written almost like music itself, music being the underlying score, that is probably the author's strengths, and I'm sure, as other reviews show, there are plenty of readers for Ms. Denton.

Some descriptions donât work for me but they are mostly related to the human element. âHe smiled shakily, forgetting the gaps in his front teeth.â One, how does an observer know this? Maybe he doesnât care. Two, smiling shakily does seem to indicate a discomfort with his smile. I did like the reference of the turtle carapace in the more human sense. For me, in seeking the human element, I found reasons to be critical that might otherwise run unnoticed by others. You wonât invest much time looking for errors, if this is your kind of reading. You wonât find them.

Overall, this book reads as though the people and plot are the backdrops of the gorgeously described time period set in England in the 1600sâas though the furniture of the past were set up first, and then, like in a play, people created to walk through it, touching and being touched, here and there.

By halfway through there is developing a plot of sortsâdoes our young heroine want a suitor? For they are coming out now, asking for her attention, and recognizing that she has voice. Others, such as her parents, make her feel ill for her choices of the past. She suffers from past loss in this book, but we sense a slow rise above it, toward a real life of her own.

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Title: Golden Age

Subtitle: Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Book 3

Author: Jane Smiley

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-15

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

It's 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm - a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned.

Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors encountered.

Richie Langdon, finally out from under his twin brother's shadow, finds himself running for Congress almost unintentionally and completely underprepared for the world-changing decisions he will have to make. Charlie, the charmer, recently found, struggles to find his way. Jesse's son, Guthrie, set to take over the family farm, is deployed to Iraq, leaving it in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity, who must defend the land from more than just the extremes of climate change.

Moving through the 1990s to our own moment and beyond, this last instalment sees the final repercussions of time on the Langdon family. After a hundred years of personal change and US history, filled with words unsaid and moments lost, Golden Age brings to a magnificent conclusion the century-long portrait of one unforgettable family.

Critic Reviews:

Smiley swoops from one story to another, and doesnt trouble to re-introduce characters who may have dropped out of the narrative for a long time. She demands a good deal from her readers, but those who persevere will find the effort rewardingSmiley drives her narrative forward compellingly. (Smileys Game, The Scotsman)

The final volume in the Last Hundred Years trilogy concludes the epic story of the lives and loves of one ever-expanding American familyJane Smiley might be the perfect candidate to write a truly panoramic novel about a vast subject. (Philip Hensher, The Guardian)

Members Reviews:

A story of yesterday, today and tomorrow

I am bereft that I have come to the end of this brilliant trilogy. I feel that The Langdons are personal friends and I am really going to miss them.

This was a wonderful story, weaving together families, friends and facts. Jane Smiley is to be applauded for her ability to craft a story that is as fascinating as it is relevant. A living history.

Finally a word for Lorelei King whom I have listened to before and absolutely love her narration.

I am jealous of anyone yet to listen to this trilogy, you have it all before you- enjoy.

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Titel: Die steinerne Schlange

Autor:: Iny Lorentz

Erzähler: Nicole Engeln

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-08-15

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Deutschland, 213 n. Chr.: Quintus Severus Silvanus kommt zu den Sueben, um den Stammesfürsten zur Heerfolge für einen von Kaiser Caracalla geplanten Feldzug aufzufordern.

Als Quintus Gerhild zu Gesicht bekommt, will er sie als Geliebte mitnehmen. Gerhild sträubt sich jedoch und besteht auf einen Wettkampf. Sie tritt selbst gegen Quintus an, besiegt ihn und blamiert ihn damit vor dem ganzen Stamm.

Quintus gibt sich damit nicht zufrieden, er sinnt auf Rache. Er will die junge Germanin als Sklavin haben und sie beherrschen. Doch dies sind nicht die einzigen Abenteuer, die Gerhild bestehen muss...

©2015 Bastei Lübbe (P)2015 Lübbe Audio

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Title: Cleopatra's Shadows

Author: Emily Holleman

Narrator: Katy Sobey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The only way to survive her dynasty is to rule it.

Abandoned by her beloved older sister, Cleopatra, and an indifferent father, Arsinoe, a young Egyptian princess must fight for survival in the bloodthirsty royal court after her half-sister Berenice seizes power.

But despite using her quick wits to win Berenice's favour, Arsinoe struggles to establish herself in an uncertain new world, one that carries her from the conspiratorial dangers of the palace to the streets of war-torn Alexandria.

Meanwhile, her other sister, the usurper Berenice, has her own demons to confront - her cruel, flagging mother, a pair of fickle husbands, and the ever-present threat that her father will return from exile - as she fights to hold the throne as the first queen of Egypt in a thousand years.

Perfect for historical fiction fans who loved discovering The Other Boleyn Girl, Cleopatra's Shadows reimagines Cleopatra's rise to power through the eyes of her forgotten younger sister, Arsinoe.

Members Reviews:

worst book

really struggled to finish this book, and even when I did couldn't see why I had bothered.